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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A family-owned edifice successful north-west Clovis has go a deed connected weeknights with their themed meal nights, which owners accidental are helping alteration the communicative of the Central Valley.
Mother of 4 Vanessa Medlock says she grew up successful Fresno - and has ever battled comparisons betwixt the Central Valley and the Bay Area oregon Southern California.
"When you're not successful a immense metropolis similar immoderate of our larger cities to the northbound and southbound of us, you conflict to find radical who are consenting to bash amusive things," Medlock said. "Everybody's engaged and they're managing their families and their homes."
Medlock says erstwhile she took ownership of the Ten Tavern successful Clovis 2 years ago, she felt she had large nutrient and an enthusiastic young staff.
But caring for her unit would beryllium conscionable arsenic hard arsenic raising 4 kids.
"Most edifice workers volition enactment astatine 2 oregon 3 antithetic restaurants. So I figured we needed to find a mode wherever everyone could enactment more," Medlock said. "I consciousness precise liable for the lives of my employees and their livelihoods."
According to Medlock, her unit and big children, who enactment astatine the restaurant, came up with the thought to propulsion themed events astatine the edifice to bring successful customers connected slower days.
"We started with bingo. That was our archetypal event, and it went disconnected the charts. We sold retired the tickets successful a fewer days," Medlock said. "We went from having a Tuesday nighttime with a fewer tables, a mates of servers, and a bartender, to having our afloat unit moving each time of the week."
Bit by bit, Medlock and her unit worked to travel up with caller themes, including Love Island ticker parties, karaoke brunches.
Medlock says her customers were soon calling the Ten Tavern, "the champion happening that came to Clovis."
But the events and themed nights aren't conscionable for bully fun; immoderate person been fundraisers for bully causes.
"In November, we're doing a fundraiser to rise funds for scholarships for precocious schoolhouse students," Medlock said. "That comes from a fundraiser for Dominick Orona, who was killed successful a car mishap 4 years ago."
Medlock says Orona's parents are regulars astatine the edifice and past twelvemonth they raised implicit $3,000 successful assistance funds for Dinuba graduates together.
"Not everything we spot and work astir is fun," Medlock said. "There has to beryllium joyousness successful your life. To beryllium a portion of bringing joyousness to our assemblage and to uplift our assemblage is really, truly important to me."
The Ten Tavern is unfastened 7 days a week astatine 1177 N Willow Ave #108 successful Clovis. For much accusation connected the restaurant's upcoming events, sojourn their social media linked here.
