The Cibola County Beacon published an interesting feature about the Grants Cafe in Grants, N.M., which has been serving customers along Route 66 since 1949.
And get this: The restaurant has had the same cook for more than 50 years, and the owner has been there more than 30.
Alice Rose Johnson, a cook for the café since 1955, remembers the decade of the 1960s as being the busiest. In those days, there was a motel behind the café and the kitchen crew packed brown bag lunches for the fire fighters who lodged there during the summer fire season. […]
The current owner, Steve Vigil has been at the local bistro since 1977.
“He makes the chili and I make the beans,” said Johnson. “Mary is a very good waitress and she helps me a lot. Sandy is the dish washer, she’s a very good worker,” Johnson said of her family of co-workers. […]
“We’re hanging in ’till we can’t do it anymore,” she added. “We’re waiting to win the Power Ball. We’re dreamers.”