Todd Chippie is the landlord of Final Prevent Saloon, a cafe within the downtown industry district of The Dalles. He’s additionally operating with the town to redevelop 3 houses, together with a former bowling alley which is being transformed right into a 12,000 square-foot out of doors area for are living track and different occasions.
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Todd Chippie is the landlord of The Last Stop Saloon, a bar and eating place in The Dalles that dates again to the Eighties. He additionally owns two different taverns in Beaverton and Portland. He and his spouse had been attracted to The Dalles just about six years in the past via its “300 days of light,” a neighborhood that rallies in combination and the proximity to myriad out of doors leisure alternatives. However something he doesn’t maintain is the low pay provider sector staff make, in conjunction with a loss of inexpensive housing, inexpensive daycare and scientific products and services comparable to imaginative and prescient and dental care. So Chippie now gives his team of workers a minimal wage of $17.25 an hour and offers paid break day. He additionally entered into an settlement with The Dalles to redevelop 3 downtown houses, together with an outside tournament area scheduled to open within the spring. He additionally plans to refurbish two flooring above the eating area in The Final Prevent Saloon to transform them into condo gadgets for provider sector staff.
However Chippie’s industry selections have now not been with out controversy. Last June, Oregon OSHA issued Carpenter a nearly $9,000 citation for his resolution to permit indoor eating in violation of a public well being order to restrict the unfold of COVID-19 in Wasco County. Chippie joins us to proportion what the enjoy has taught him and why he thinks companies in The Dalles wish to play a better function in making it a spot the place staff can manage to pay for to are living and lift their households.
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