A family-owned restaurant was saved by a gaggle of teenagers after the owner’s wife fell into a coma.

From Hudson, Minnesota comes the story of the team at the heart of Urban Olive & Vine, and their dedication to a woman they’d come to know and love, Carol Trainer.

Along with husband Chad, Carol founded the restaurant and recruited from the 14-18 year-old-age bracket, enjoying the opportunity to pass on critical work experience, and life experience besides, to the “sponge”-like minds of the eager recruits.

But the tables were turned when Carol had a seizure, and entered a comatose state at the hospital that lasted for months. Chad, dutifully at her bedside, says he never asked one favor of his staff: they did it all themselves.

What exactly did they do?

“Without them the restaurant would not exist,” Chad tells Boyd Huppert’s Land of 10,000 Stories at KARE 11. “These kids became adults and ran our business, and took care of me.”

One particular teen adult was 17-year-old Acacia Kunkle, who started coming to work at 5:30 a.m. on her own volition to help open Urban Olive & Vine. She became a leader that others, like 15-year-old Joe Stephenson, looked up to.

Joe and Acacia were among the homeschoolers who kept things going during the day, while the public-school kids were in class.

According to an extraordinary story from KARE 11, each teenager took on new roles and new responsibilities. They trained themselves, supported each other, came up with new specials, and, when the time came for it, found time to grieve.

On May 5th, Carol died in the hospital, and Chad closed the restaurant for the staff to attend the funeral.

Afterwards, they slowly, and as surely as before, got back to work; a testament to the discipline and strength they developed during the long months.

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