Diamond Bakery in Los Angeles is in trouble.
That's according to President Raymond Luna on a GoFundMe page set up to help the bakery.
On the GoFundMe page he wrote "Before the pandemic, Diamond Bakery was set to keep its door open for another decade. We've been open since 1946 and had everything we needed to keep going. Diamond Bakery has always supplied to many other restaurants in Los Angeles as well as grocery stores. With the pandemic, restaurants shuttered their doors, some declared bankruptcy, and those that remained open ordered significantly less from us. Once we had enough money gathered together to re-open, the protests and looting happened. Our neighbors got looted, and many had to shut down their doors. We were lucky to get only a couple of broken windows. Many of our daily regulars were our neighbors—coming in for a cup of coffee, a danish, or some delicious bourekas. Now, with their businesses closed, that's even less of our regulars coming in."
Luna wrote that the bakery needs help. "We just need to survive for a couple of months as the pandemic lasts. Optimistically, until the end of this year. If we can survive throughout the end of this year, we should be back on our feet and ready to go for next year," Luna wrote.
It's reached more than $3,000 of its $400,000 goal in the GoFundMe set up online.