Patxi Trujillo, who runs the La Viña restaurant in the San Francisco neighborhood of Bilbao, has received an anonymous envelope with 30 euros that a client has sent him for the coffees that he will not be able to drink in November, the month in which his establishment will remain closed after the closure decreed by the Basque Government to deal with covid-19.
As explained by the owner, on Monday he approached his premises to turn off the coffee maker and some refrigerating chamber that had been left on last Friday, because they will not be used during closing.
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His "surprise," Trujillo pointed out, came after opening the blind and finding a handwritten letter with capital letters in which he could read "until right away."
"Upon opening it, the author of the note clarified to the hotelier that he had not been able to go to his premises last Friday, the last day that the hotel establishments were open to the public:" I cannot prevent them from forcing you to close.
I am going to be able to work that month, so I have calculated what I would consume here in November if it were open.
I know this doesn't solve your situation ... I wish I could do this on Friday the 6th, but it couldn't happen.
A big hug".
Trujillo has said that it is a "super pretty" detail that has moved him "a lot" and that gives him "energy to fight all his life."
He affirms that he is "almost certain" that "it is a client, due to the written lyrics", and has been very grateful for this "super detail", but he does not know who it may be.
"I have no idea. I don't know who she is, if I had put 'I'm the one with the saccharin cut', because I would still remember her. I don't know, it's still a boy, I have no idea," he stressed.
"I knew I had good clients, but up to that point I did not imagine it," he clarified.
However, he hopes that the client will clarify it "one day", "even in his ear" and say: "Hello, Patxi, I'm the one with the envelope!"
"I would tell him that it has given me energy to fight my whole life, that it is not the 30 euros, but what it entails. What helps you to be told that you do it well, that it is not your fault, and that with this it continues forward a whole life ", has emphasized the hotelier.
It is not the only joy that Patxi Trujillo has taken.
On Friday, the last day it was open, another client had the same detail, ETB collects.
"It was a rush of energy and we needed it," he pointed out.
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