“There’s just a lot more angst in the world today. From my feeling in the bar business, in the hospitality world, we’re walking around on eggshells more than we were before.” –Ralph Skrzypczak, Owner
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we’re walking around on eggshells more than we were before.” He said more online orders also changed the dynamic of business, along with higher pay for staff and rising costs in general. Today, Skrzypczak said he’s trying to give people what they want. Consequently, the menu covers everything from a hotdog and soda to a steak and a glass of fine wine. “We want a place that the community is proud of to call their own,” Skrzypczak said. “Cheers,” a nod to the TV comedy based on a bar “where everyone knows your name,” is something Skrzypczak said he hears from customers when describing The Roost. “When we celebrate, we do it here,” he said, speaking of his regular diners and barflies. He said he recognizes more such places are needed in Maricopa to keep customers from having to drive deeper into the Valley and metro Phoenix metro through the aggravating traffic of State Route 347. New online ordering and delivery concepts are under consideration, he said. A popular promotion is raffling off a 85-inch TV during football season. A $6.99 “fire sale” breakfast and $1 beers at 3:47 p.m. are among the bar’s unique and rotating promotional offerings. “As Maricopa grows into the future, I just want to have a place that can be represented across the board, generationally, for everyone,” Skrzypczak said. “It’s a place where everyone can just come and hang out and feel comfortable being themselves.”
businessowners despite the fact they knew little to nothing about health care. Even though the business survived the pandemic, Skrzypczak said it took a severe toll. “We ended up having to sell my mom’s house in Colorado — the house that I grew up in — at the end of 2020,” he said. The government loans were intended to keep people employed at the bar, he said. It could not be used to pay off debt. The business has a “lean” staff of 25 today, he said, down from 50 before the pandemic. “The weirdest part is COVID changed human behavior, so we don’t participate in things like we used to,” he said. “There’s just a lot more angst in the world today. From my feeling in the bar business, in the hospitality world,
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