Mr. JERRY AMATO (Owner of Mother's): Well, my cooks are living in the FEMA trailers in the parking lot, and without them, I couldn't have reopened, but that was the only way I could get them in here, was to give them a place to work, and, actually, for the first two weeks we were open, I put them up in a hotel across the street.
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