Portland Restaurants Fight to Stay Open During 2021 Heat Wave
Lisa Nguyen, the owner of mochi doughnut pop-up Heyday, thought she’d beat the heat on Saturday, June 26, by prepping the day’s worth of doughnuts at 3 a.m. When she arrived at the kitchen at North Mississippi’s Psychic Bar, however, it was already 85 degrees inside the kitchen — hotter than the still-dark night outside. She had to keep the dough in the fridge, to keep it from over-proofing. “Our decorating station was easily 10 degrees hotter,” she says. “We were dying, and it was only 4 a.m. by that point.” Nguyen, like many other business owners in Portland this weekend, sp...
Source: eater.com