Column: Show some love. Be good to each other. A Park Ridge cafe owner inspires us on Labor Day

Last Tuesday, in a move that should inspire bosses everywhere, Ryan Tracy closed his two businesses in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge to give his staff a mental health day after a rough week.

“We need a break,” he posted on Facebook.

Tracy owns Beer on the Wall, a liquor store and beer cafe on the town’s Main Street, along with Off the Wall Cafe, which the website notes exists because “You can’t drink beer ALL the time, can you?”

The rough week, as Jennifer Johnson reported in Tribune Publishing’s Pioneer Press, included “two threats against servers who were trying to enforce a no-dog policy on the outdoor patio, a man who wanted to fight the host of a trivia night who had disqualified one of the teams, and confrontations between angry customers.”

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