Blaine's on Main finds a home

It’s common knowledge that launching a business isn’t easy, but Blaine Fisher and his family could never have guessed that it would be this hard.
           
“It was nothing like I expected. I honestly didn’t know what to expect,” he said.
           
After well over a year of meetings, grant applications and fundraising efforts, Blaine and his mother Kandy, the operators of the yet-to-be-opened “Blaine’s on Main,” have officially found a home for their restaurant at 125 North Main Street in Conrad, and they’re renting it in good faith until July of 2018.
           
By that deadline, the Fishers are hoping to finance the eventual purchase and renovation (including knocking out at least two walls) of the former GNB Insurance building into a traditional American diner. Between the family’s savings and the Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) program with the Social Security Administration, Blaine has about $49,000 in capital and has received numerous equipment donations. The final goal is around $100,000.
           
“We want to make it so (Blaine) doesn’t have to borrow hardly anything if possible because owning a restaurant is risky business,” Kandy said. 
 
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