Business owner explains closing

The Lazy Fox will be closing the beginning of April. 

Our business survived the pandemic, the only other food business on the block burning down and the death of my mother who helped us build the bakery. 

This year we had been weathering rising food, power, and gas prices but the final straw was seeing another year where we could not afford health insurance. 

When we lost mom last year it was in part because she held off on going in when she felt sick because she had a gap in her insurance. By the time we got her to go in it was too late. We do not want this to happen to us so it is only fitting that our last day the bakery is open is also the day we lost her. 

I am usually one to hope for change but after speaking with local state politicians about the struggles of small businesses with the state’s broken healthcare exchange I have no hope while they are in office. 

When we asked them to step up and support small businesses, as they often tout, our Representative said doing so would make people lazy. It showed us just how far that support goes beyond their own small businesses. 

We apologize that Thermpolis will be losing another business.

Nels Kelley, co-owner