Updated on December 23, 2020 at 7:17 pm NBC Universal, Inc. It’s been a difficult year, especially for everyone in the restaurant industry. But a Christmas miracle came a few days early for one waitress in Dover, New Hampshire. Arianna Gutierrez' 2020 has been tough for a thousand different reasons “She’s been struggling just like most of us, but a little bit more,” said Nikki Basham, a manager at 2 Home Cooks. “We shut down in March, we were doing online takeout, and that cut back a lot,” Basham explained. Gutierrez works hard to provide for her 5-year-old daughter Ryleigh, but amid the pandemic, there were times it felt impossible.