 Hey everyone, I'm Scott Shigeyoka and I'm Go Daddy's entrepreneur in residence and I'm calling in from San Francisco where I'm continuing to follow California's shelter-in-place order and I'm gonna be talking today to Azalina Yusof who is a restaurant owner here in San Francisco and she's doing all that she can like most small business owners to keep her doors open to keep her team employed and to support her family and her community and she's gonna talk about what she's doing to cope through these very real challenges and how even despite this all she's staying positive too It's so nice to have this conversation and to learn more about you and your business I would love to start there, you know, can you tell me a little bit more about yourself and what it is that you do? My name is Azalina and I am a fifth generation of Malaysian street vendor from Penang But I have started my business about almost 10 years now in San Francisco We did start it off as a farmers market vendor and now we have two brick-and-mortar We are on our way to open up three more additional space which right now is on hold Since COVID-19 If you feel comfortable if you could just share a little bit more about how COVID-19 has affected your business and where you're at right now with the process We still are able to do takeouts and deliveries, but that's not enough to pay our style Our business has declined by 97% And we're still keeping our 65 employees. We're still paying them. We decided We are going to deplete all of our savings just to make sure that our staff doesn't feel They've been abandoned because I wouldn't have been here. It was not for that What are you doing to try to cope and to try to You know get through this crisis We just keep making food and donate them to different shelters. We have opened up Our kitchen space to people to friends that have to shut down their restaurants to do Like their takeouts from our space so they can still generate money and you don't have to pay us anything because we all still there We are doing a small fundraiser to go funding. So we'll see how that goes Yeah, people has been so supportive. Who are you feeding every day? So we feeding a range of people we feeding domestic violence Survivor women and children is better shelter We giving food every other day about 4,000 meals to glide foundations Could you tell me a little bit more about the advice you might give to small business owners who are facing similar circumstances? I'm not good at giving advice, but I can just share what works for me You just have to be able to take that one step forward every single day. That's what I do I just go I get I can't say I don't go backwards. I always think make myself to take one step forward Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so so much much love. Bye So I know these times can be really challenging for everyone and I think it's really helpful to hear People's stories on how they're navigating and how they're coping through this crisis And if you want to support Azelina, she has a go fund me link that you can check out below And if you really need help, please ask for it There are mental health organizations out there that are dedicated to supporting you through this time If you need any other resources, you can check out openwestand.org And know that we're all going to get through this time together Thanks so much for joining me and I hope to see you next time