05/11/2026
❤️ Thank You, Albuquerque ❤️
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for an incredible Mother’s Day.
Both of our locations were packed all day long with amazing guests, and it was truly our pleasure to serve you. Thank you for choosing to spend part of your special day with us.
We know we weren’t perfect, but I can promise you this — our team gave everything they had.
I especially want to thank our incredible staff. So many moms spent their Mother’s Day managing, cooking, serving, hosting, bussing, and cleaning — all without complaint and always with a smile.
Anyone who has worked in this industry knows Mother’s Day is not for the faint of heart:
Dishes clanging
DoorDash tablets buzzing
Kitchen printers smoking from over use
Servers and cooks arguing
…and one amazing hostess praying for just ONE table to leave so she could seat the 12-top giving her the death stare for the last 10 minutes.
It’s chaos. It’s pressure. But somehow, under all that pressure, this team turned into diamonds.
Running around trying to help wherever I could, I couldn’t stop thinking about how lucky we are to have such incredible people willing to work so hard for our guests and for each other.
So to our staff:
Thank you for sacrificing time with your own families.
Thank you for showing up.
Thank you for coming in early and staying late.
And to my wife — thank you for enduring an 18th straight Mother’s Day without your husband because he chose this crazy profession.
We are beyond grateful.
❤️ Joe Smothered
