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06/12/2025

Small Businesses in EVV need your help!

Small Businesses in EVV need your help!

Right now, your faves, your regular haunts, and the place you’ve never been to, are facing increasing pressures. Economic uncertainty, rising costs, summer vacations, road construction and closures, the lure of a new chain restaurant/store - dealing with just one of these is difficult enough, but together they’re having a significant - and potentially permanent - impact on local businesses. Far too many small businesses are closing or considering it, and it’s all people behind the scenes are talking about.

Here’s what we’re asking you to do for your community, to help keep small biz doors open, and to ensure more independent doors open down the road.

First, come in! Have dinner, have a drink, order a coffee to go, buy a book, put a plant in your windowsill, buy an extra cookie, pick up a t-shirt, hey is that a donut? I’ll take it! Bring a friend along, increase the impact!

Then tell people about it! We all take the good for granted. The easiest thing you can do is leave a Google/Facebook review. Select the stars or spend a minute thinking about what brought you in/keeps bringing you back/what makes this biz stand out. Then like & follow their page if you don’t already! You can do this right now for a few of your faves. We posted a few this morning ourselves.

If you follow the local food review sites online and would like to see content beyond how the new chain restaurant blows but they’ll give it four more chances and whether KFC is killing it this week or not, raise the bar and write a review there, same approach as before!

Lastly visit a small business you’ve never been to. Be curious & explore! Follow the steps above & repeat! Then come by and tell us about it!

Businesses know you’re facing the same economic strains they are. Where you spend your money matters now more than ever. The fabric and future of your neighborhoods and neighbors depends on it. Small business folks in every role love what they do, where they do it, and who they do it for and they can’t do it without you!

(Random pic of a road closure)

11/24/2021

You have been warned. And now you have been hashtagged.

11/23/2021

Greetings earthlings! You should most definitely do two things - well, actually four things:

1. Walk around the 420 rubble pile and take in the new view, and most importantly, bring your dolla bills and support:
2. Sixth and Zero
3. Your Brother's Bookstore
4. Lic's Deli & Ice Cream on 5th Street!!!

As local shops, they have enough to worry about on the daily. Being right in the middle of these street implosion related closures is just so fun for them, to be sure. So, park on a nearby street, and walk stroll & roll to these fine establishments today.

From our conversation with Super Nice Guy With A Hard Hat today, Main Street may very well open ahead of schedule. So hey, be sure to support Milanos Italian Cuisine as soon as they reopen, ok?

11/18/2021

Evansville has needed an independent support page for our indie scene for far too long. Stay tuned for more information soon, but for our very first post, you need to know THIS:

Siciliano Subs is now delivering starting at 11am! Get you some!

Friends,
To make your lunch rush easier, we have officially opened Doordash ordering starting at 11am with a full staff on site to serve you. Thank you so much for supporting our dream of bringing great subs to Evansville while supporting our community in the process.
With so much love and gratitude,
David and Danielle