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to be talking about shop Hop and we have Chef Allen coming in to chat
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nine in the former Sioux Falls VFW building. Thank you for your us on
a Thursday, excited to have a guest in the studio. Chef Ellen,
how are you doing? I am good? Thanks for having me, Sue
Fall Chef now right, yes, going to suit Fall chef. And it's
fun because I've always known you as Chef Allen. Then I saw a suit
Fall chef. Oh, Chef Ellen, what's going on here? How long
has it been Sue Fall Chef? Has it been a little bit? It's
been less than a year. Now we're transitioning and there's just I mean,
there's just so many more than just me there. I can't take all the
credit there. Well, and I'm out of touch, but I'm not that
far out of touch if it's only been a year as good. So let's
talk about it's the shop hop and this is like your brain choilt life.
People at Sue Fall Chef came up with it. Yes, so our general
manager Cat came up with the idea. So we reached out to other local
businesses and with us included. There's twenty four businesses on the card. Yeah,
all small, all local, all within entertainment, food and retail.
So there's kind of those three sections of things to hit and they're all laid
out on a Bingo card so you can kind of hop around the city and
get to ringos however you want. And the thing that's neat about this,
I saw this on social media and I saw that it was promoting shopping local,
supporting a local, big time fan of that, love love, love
that, and I reached out to Kat and said, hey, let me
know what we can do to help promote this because I love that you're doing
this. So thank you guys for you know, picking up the shop local
ball and playing, and thank you to all of the businesses that got involved.
Were you surprised when you got twenty four people to say I'll do this?
Yeah, you know, at first, when you start something like this,
you're like, well, maybe we'll get enough, and then it was
like, at one point we were like, are we going to need two
different Bingo cards. So this is only the first year and we're definitely like
working the kinks out in the system, but we're hoping to just keep the
ball rolling with I love that. Yeah, we did back in twenty twenty,
when like all the Easter stuff was canceled, we did an Easter egg
hunt and I just posted it and it was like a scavenger hunt. We
drive around and there were like letters and windows, and then when things were
back to normal, we didn't do it, and then I was getting messages
for years. I'll probably have them again this year where we get close to
Easter going why don't you do that anymore? And I'm like, well,
it's fun and especially neat right, and it's February, so everybody's like stuck
inside and we're all looking for stuff to do. So it's just a great
timing. So let's explain the shop hop for people that are listening. Going,
Okay, you mentioned Bingo cards, you mentioned shop hop, but what
is this? So what is the shop hop? So the shop hop is
laid out as a Bingo card and each square on the card is a different
local business. Now, a lot of the businesses are going to have discounts
when you bring in your card. We're doing ten percent off at the store.
Some of like the arcades, are doing free credits and things, so
you can ask when you go in. But they'll stamp your card and that's
you know, your space, so you can line up, you know,
however many bingos you want. We're not doing like four corners. You got
to get your traditional bingos, but you can kind of hop around town and
see a few different places, and at the end of the month, if
you turn in your card to any of the local businesses, we'll pull them
all up. Each bingo is an entry into our various drawings and we have
all donated prizes to give away, so full cheesecakes, gift cards, a
three foot stuffed chicken nugget, like all everything you can imagine. I can't
wait to see the three foot stuff chicken nugget. We have it on display
at our store if you want to have to stop it and listen. Where
are you located? So they are on sixty ninth and Western Avenue. Very
nice, and that's what do they call that area? There's a Remington Remington
Center. Yes, so we're right next to twenty two ten Kitchen and Cocktails.
So we're doing the Slandwich. So we're just all local. That is
awesome. And again, the thing that I love about this this is like
you don't get more local than this. This is local, local, local.
And you know, there was recently during the Super Bowl there were ads
for TMU and and then you know a lot of people are online talking about,
oh, I don't do that because it doesn't support local businesses. And
I'm I'm of that vein where I'm a big fan of what can we do
to keep people spending their money locally? And I think I'm not one that
says somebody should tell me where I can and can't do things. So that's
up to you. You do what you want to do. But I like
to remind people why it's important to do business locally because when you go into
businesses like a Sioux Fall chef, and you go into the local businesses and
spend money with them, those are the same people who quite often are the
ones sponsoring local things that your family enjoys as well. And they're the ones
that when you come in, do you want to collect tax? I don't,
but we have to write, so we collect tax, and we pay
that tax, and those taxes go to pay for the roads, and those
taxes go to pay for all of the things that we that we have in
our communities. So you know, they're they're doing so much to help your
community, and there are people who go, well, i'll save a little
if I click this button and I just do it online. Well, you
don't always save a little. You also get scammed a lot online. So
there's so many reasons to not do that. And I love it when somebody
comes up with a fun way to make shopping local funds. So when I
saw this, I was like, I love it. We're going to chat
about this for sure. Yes, it's great. And I've been trying to
make my way around and I've popped into places that I either had heard of,
don't cham I'm working on my Bengos, yes, but like one of
a mulberry market I had never been into. It was like three times a
size I thought it was going to be. It had way more vendors in
there than I thought, and they're all like local little individual person's booth.
When you buy that item, you are helping that person exactly. It's crazy.
When I had driven by there like ten times, I was like,
I got to stop because I want to see what that is. For some
reason, I was thinking it was like a farmer's market because it's mulberry market.
And I go in there and there's like a bunch of craft items and
local businesses. I'm like, oh, that's I didn't know that's what it
was. So if you've driven by a bunch of times and you didn't know
that's what's in there. It's crafty stuff, it's a cool place. It
is really cool and a lot of these businesses are so excited to be a
part of it too, so they'll get excited to stamp your card into Bingo
you and see where you're going around town and to support everybody else. Well,
Chef Allen, thank you for coming in. Thanks for doing what you're
doing to help support local businesses, not just yours, but all of the
businesses that are a part of this. I think it's cool. Yeah,
well, thank you so much for having me. It's absolutely my pleasure.
If somebody would like to find a Bingo card of their own, if they
would like to be a part of this, what is step one? How
do they get a card and how do they start planning? Yes, so
all of the businesses that are involved will have cards available for pickup at their
locations. You can search on Facebook, Shop Hop Bingo. There's an event
set up and you can see the full list of all of the participating businesses,
and they will all have their stuff posted when you walk so you can
see and grab and go. I will post it on our Facebook page again
as well. I've already shared it earlier this week, but I'll do it
again today to make sure it's really easy to find. Thank you again,
yes, thanks for having me. And get out there and shop and hop.
You don't have to hop, but do the shop hop. It's fun.
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