LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – In January 2021, whereas the nation was coping with a surge of COVID-19 instances from the vacation season, The Spinning Axe opened its doorways in downtown Lafayette. Whereas so many small companies have needed to shut, Barbara Huddleston, the proprietor of The Spinning Axe, determined it was time to open.
“I used to be scared as a result of I principally took my financial savings and put it right into a model new veunture,” Huddleston stated.
Beforehand, she had labored 12 years in catering. Nonetheless, with the pandemic, that enterprise was slowly floor to a halt. She is aware of first hand the dangers of working a enterprise throughout such a time.
However whereas on trip with Jason Whitenight, Normal Supervisor of The Spinning Axe, a brand new concept was discovered for a enterprise: axe throwing.
“This was a means for individuals to exit and do one thing enjoyable with their household to blow off some steam in a secure means,” Huddleston stated.
“So yeah it was scary but in addition it was… it type of match with what we have been coping with this 12 months.”
Whitenight says they knew the state of affairs they have been getting themselves into once they determined to go forward with the enterprise.
“So we knew it was a giant danger, you realize?” Whitenight stated.
“It is nonetheless a giant danger, though we have been doing properly these final 5 weeks that we have been open, but it surely’s a danger we expect is price taking.”
Huddleston says regardless of all of it she knew she needed to preserve making an attempt.
“My mother and father raised me to not be a quitter,” Huddleston stated.
“I obtained knocked down but it surely wasn’t the top of me… I like being a small enterprise proprietor, I have been 12 years being a small enterprise proprietor and I would not need it some other means.”
