NEW ORLEANS — Lilly’s Café owner Trinh Vong knows the secret to good iced coffee
“It’s love,” Trinh Vuong said.
Whoever broke into the Vietnamese restaurant in Lower Garden early this week wasn’t after her recipe.
“They had a big brick and broke into our window purposefully and took the tip jar,” Vuong said.
Other than the glass on her front door, Vuong says she only lost about fifteen dollars.
“It’s weird, I still don’t get why this person would do this,” Vuong said.
In the Bywater, the person who pried open the door to Almas Café two weeks ago didn’t come for Melissa Araujo’s baleadas either.
“From the food to the closures, we’re looking at about $100,000,” Araujo said.
Araujo says her intruder took liquor, thousands of dollars in cash, a safe full of financial documents, and two days of her business.
According to a MCC report, business burglaries are down 33 percent.
For a business owner out one hundred grand, or just a tip jar, statistics don’t mean much.
“It’s personal for me. We work so hard to maintain this restaurant.
When news got out Tuesday morning, Vuong said her neighbors ran over, but they weren’t there for her coffee either.
“We look out for each other and support each other's businesses,” Vuong explained.
NOPD says the incidents are still under investigation.
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