Dominica: Story of a man who opened his business in St Kitts & struggled for support

A young Dominican entrepreneur who moved to St Kitts finally took up the challenge to start his own restaurant business. He is well known as Nano Junior Greenaway.

After many years of struggle, he finally opened his restaurant named "Solo Una Probada" in North Independence Square, Basseterre, St Kitts & Nevis, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. He said the restaurant is named in Spanish and its means "meaning just a taste,".

Sharing the details of his struggle, Greenaway said that shifting to a different country was among the toughest choices he ever made in his life. He said at one point in life; he was exhausted trying to keep up with managing the business as well as working a regular job.

"Living in a foreign country doing it on your own with no help sometimes ain't as easy as 1,2,3. I just got a strong mind, and as y'all may know, Facebook is most times what keeps me sane; so like most times, I just Post something we all laugh at and get to interact with each other, and that's basically my company I make choices with no second thoughts, no looking back basically a do or don't kind of guy," Greenway wrote on social media.

Furthermore, he stated that after many months of thinking, he finally decided to leave his regular job to set out himself in the business.

"With all that being said, I'm just asking for the most support that I could actually get from you guys, not just my Facebook friends but also other individuals living right here in St Kitts and Nevis. If I got to speak the truth, it might sound harsh, but it's the truth when I started the business here I did expect to get more support from my own people but it's the other way around," he added.

Greenaway said only a few people supported him through his journey.

"Very few to the majority living here do support me and always keep supporting me even strange that persons that actually lives here barely ask me what's going on and it got Dominicans living all the way in Nevis and the moment they cross the water they come to my place even some order from me and I get to send it over to them, I've also had Dominicans who live all the way in the states that actually know persons here on island that would actually pay me via PayPal etc only to patronize with me and get the individual whatever was ordered," he said.

He asked Dominicans living in St Kitts and Nevis to support his restaurant, "I'm just saying you ain't got to flood me out every day but the lil that you could get to support what I do really goes a long way And this why I'll say it again living in a foreign land and supporting your own is a plus," Nano Junior Greenaway stated.

Sharing the story of naming his restaurant in Spanish, he said when he ran a food truck, a Spanish lady helped him establish it.

"I tell you, wherever a Spanish is situated, the others will come and patronize and throw her. I happened to get a lot of Spanish customers, so this was basically the reason I've placed the name in Spanish,".

Furthermore, he said that he does not support the idea of serving leftovers to his customers, which is why he often loses.

"I've already started making some big losses on certain days because guess what my business is about food, and I'm not a fan of storing and serving leftovers to persons so yea most times I be making a lost I do have some great days, well days," he stated.