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GETTING SHIFT DONE

Effort named ‘most innovative not-forprofit organization’ by ‘Fast Company’

By Bethany Erickson

People Newspapers

named the most innovative not-for-profit organization in a list of 10 by the magazine Fast Company in March.

It was only supposed to be for 12 But now — thanks to vaccines becomweeks. ing more available and the nation getting

But a year later, Get Shift Done, closer to herd immunity — Brandt said the pandemic-spurred effort from he’s starting to see a slow change. co-founders Patrick Brandt of Shift “I don’t know if I want to call it light Smart and Perot Jain’s Anurag Jain, is at the end of the tunnel because this has still providing work for underemployed been one heck of a long tunnel,” he said. and unemployed hospitality workers. “But we are starting to see some vol-

“We didn’t really plan on doing this unteers come back, which is great, and for a year,” Brandt said. “We thought it restaurants, bars, and hotels are hiring was going to be at the max a 12-week again. program, and it was going to be in our “So we do hope that this is not a rebackyard in North Texas only. We never quirement going forward — but we are envisioned being in 12 very proud of the different regions across fact that it was two the country.” I don’t know if I needs being met In the earliest days of the pandemic, Jain want to call it light by one solution — hunger and food inand Brandt (who both at the end of the security, and unemlive in Preston Hollow) came up with a solution tunnel because this ployment.” But even with to three issues – unem- has been one heck more people headployment because of the pandemic, an increased of a long tunnel. ing back to work, Brandt said that he need for the services Patrick Brandt sees a fundamental many nonprofits like shift happening in the North Texas Food how people do that Bank provided, and a lack of volunteer work. The pandemic, he said, has shown availability because of COVID-19. both employees and employers that many

The result was Get Shift Done, which jobs can be done almost anywhere. provided many suddenly unemployed “Everybody keeps using the phrase with an income in exchange for working ‘when things go back to normal,’ about for those nonprofits. Launched in March, the way they work,” he said. “But it’s goGet Shift Done has grown to 12 regions ing to be a new normal - and I think across the country and has helped serve (Shift Smart) is a good example of that more than 60 million meals, with 28,000 — prior to the pandemic, we would only workers helping 110 nonprofit partners. hire in our two offices — one in Dallas, The nonprofit also paid about $15 mil- one in San Francisco — but here we are a lion in wages for 1 million hours of shifts. year later, and we’ve hired something like

And the innovative way Jain and Brandt 25 people remotely.” married Shift Smart’s existing infrastructure to meet that need has garnered a lot See more of our conversation with Brandt of attention and praise, including being at peoplenewspapers.com.

Patrick Brandt, co-founder of Get Shift Done, says that what was supposed to be a 12-week

effort is still going strong a year later. (PHOTO: KLEKAMP GROUP LLC / COURTESY GET SHIFT DONE)

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18 April 2021 | prestonhollowpeople.com Historic Texas Blizzard Couldn’t Keep Solo Burgers Closed University Park restauranteur employs New York know-how to weather the cold

By Josh Hickman

Special Contributor

He winterized his restaurant as best he could, even buying salt at Home Depot for the sidewalk.

“We were the only ones open,” Hatem “If you can’t make it in, I will pick you “Tom” Hammam said, thinking back to the up and drop you off,” he told his employees. devastating winter storm of the previous “We were just looking to help the commuweek. nity, to show the Park Cities who we are —

A hint of a smile showed under his mask we work shoulder to shoulder with them.” as he worked behind the It was a tough week for counter of Solo Burgers & Wings on Hillcrest AveWe were Solo Burgers & Wings, but it became the best week the nue. just looking restaurant has had so far. Hamman left his native Middle East for New to help the The orders came in nonstop, and employees even York City, where he ran community, had to turn a few away. restaurants for years, finally transplanting his family to show the “We’ve been looking, and you are the only place to Dallas in 2018 for a bet- Park Cities open,” a pair of hungry poter environment to raise his children. who we are. licemen noted, impressed by Hammam’s stamina and

Hammam opened his Hatem “Tom” generosity. establishment at the height of the pandemic — a big Hammam “All of our food is top-quality, fresh, nevgamble for any small busi- er frozen,” Tom boasted. ness. “Nothing is made until it is ordered. We

“It cost me a lot to build it this way,” he have the best wings in Dallas.” said, stressing that quality is paramount to the operation. “I looked for over a year to GOING SOLO find this location.”

Even his 8-year-old daughter helped seat Solo Burgers & Wings – 6413 customers and hand out menus. Hillcrest Ave. Dallas, TX 75205,

Surrounded by corporate chain restau- 214-434-1711 – serves up delicious rants and used to fierce competition, Ham- burgers, wings, shakes, salads, man credited his NYC background with and more from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., helping him cope with the arctic freeze and seven days a week. its devastating effects.

Hatem “Tom” Hammam brings New York City restaurant experience to his Solo Burgers

& Wings. (PHOTO: JOSH HICKMAN)

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The North Dallas Chamber of Commerce has headquartered at Preston and Royal for decades.

(PHOTO: COURTESY NDCC)

Chamber Building Sold

By Bethany Erickson

People Newspapers

Charles Elk, NDCC’s past board chairman, said during the Zoom event. “We have been at that site since 1979, in

It was only a year-and-a-half old — bare- two different buildings,” said chamber presly on the other side of the ribbon-cutting — ident and CEO Ken Malcolmson. “So this when an EF3 tornado walloped the North was a real bittersweet moment in our history. Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s Preston But on the other hand, it has positioned us Royal headquarters in 2019. very positively for the future.”

The southwest corner of Preston Road Malcolmson said that the sale of the and Royal Lane, where the chamber’s build- property left the chamber with the ability ing stood, took a hit from the tornado as it to pay off the mortgage and “a significant bounced down Royal Lane. amount of principle” that it

“The windows have all We can see a will use to create an unrebeen blown off,” chamber COO Jeff Kitner said at light at the end stricted endowment to pay for future lease expenses in the time. “The roof’s been of the tunnel. another building. blown off. It’s now been boarded up. And there’s a Ken “We will have a new home, but we will continue lot of interior damage.” Malcolmson the great work the cham-

And then the pandemic ber has always done,” said hit, adding to the uncertainty. board chair Tina Young.

“It’s been a strange and crazy year – re- Malcolmson spoke of how Kitner worked ally almost a year and a half,” Kitner said in with a commercial real estate broker to narMarch. row potential properties to 15, and then an

Even as recently as September, Kitner ad-hoc real estate committee narrowed that said the chamber was still trying to figure out down to six. what was next – like much of the southwest Kitner said that, generally, the chamber is corner. looking at locations between Interstate 635,

“We’re still trying to figure out what we Northwest Highway, the Dallas North Tollwill do in the long term,” he said. way, and U.S. Highway 75.

But ultimately, chamber leadership ex- Chamber leadership hopes to make a deplained at the State of the Chamber virtu- cision in April and be in the new space by al event, the organization chose to place the July. property on the market. “We’ve got some great options to con-

“The building sale was completed just sider,” Malcolmson said. “It’s about time. We about the first of February … it’s done,” can see a light at the end of the tunnel.”

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