The restaurant industry has been hit hard by the New Guinea virus, and many of its owners have been unable to pay for their losses and have closed their businesses. He hopes to use his own experience to let people understand the difficulties small businesses are experiencing at this stage.
The Chicago Tribune reported that, according to court documents, located in Chinatown, “the world is public” near a building on the second floor of the Big Three, owned by Michael Wing and Allen Wing, the two brothers filed a petition to evict the tenants of the Big Three restaurant in December last year, the documents pointed out that, until December 1 last year, the Big Three owed more than $180,000 in rent. The document states that as of December 1 of last year, Big Three owed more than $184,000 in rent.
In response to the eviction application, Stanley Ng has asked his lawyer to file a motion for reconsideration, and the case will be heard on the 10th.
The restaurant opened in 1996 at its original location on 22 Little Street and moved to its current location on Wingwood Street in 2008, making it a long-established restaurant in the Chinatown business district.
Stanley Ng recently challenged the landlord’s eviction on the grounds that the pandemic had severely restricted the restaurant’s operations and made it impossible to provide dine-in Food (impossibility of performance), citing a 76 percent drop in revenue after the Illinois ban on dine-in food.
According to the lease, the monthly rent of $23,766, including the basic rent of $19,626, plus water, insurance and real estate taxes, court documents show that the landlord, Michael Fung, stated that the Big Three had never paid off any month’s rent since April last year, and had paid $8,000 monthly during the three months of July, August and September, said Stanley Ng, who was told by the landlord that that the money paid for those three months was in addition to the base rent.
The eviction petition filed by the Fung brothers ultimately sought $95,066 in rent for September through December 2020, plus $23,766 in rent for January 2021, but not for the months of April through August.
Plaintiff’s attorney explained by email that before filing for eviction in court, the landlord tried to coordinate with the tenant to reasonably resolve the rent dispute, but no agreement was reached between the two parties and Big Three has not made a single payment of the base store rent since April of last year.
Although the Illinois government has issued a “no-eviction order” because of the Epidemic, commercial leases are not covered by the order, said Stanley Ng, adding that if the eviction order is upheld, the restaurant will definitely close for a while, but he will not easily give up on Big Three, and may “try to find another location nearby to reopen.
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