'We're Gonna All Come Through This': Community Shows Up In A Big Way To Support Inglewood's The Serving Spoon

INGLEWOOD (CBSLA) — At a time when businesses are struggling to keep their doors open as the coronavirus pandemic rages, a beloved Inglewood business was feeling the love this week.

"We had no idea that ... not so much that you guys didn't care, but, I guess that you do, and it's being displayed this way," Angela Johnson, who owns The Serving Spoon with her husband J.C. said in a video. "So, thank you. We thank you, we thank you, we thank you."

Johnson created the GoFundMe page Tuesday after realizing that, without help, the restaurant that's been in her family since her dad opened in 1983 might have to close permanently.

The call for help was heard by Academy Award-winning director Matthew A. Cherry, who told his more than 309,000 Twitter followers to support the Black-owned business.

But the good news did not stop there. The Los Angeles Rams tweeted that Andrew Whitworth and his wife, Melissa, would be donating $50,000 to the restaurant.

The overwhelming support of the community brought Johnson to tears once again in her updated video, but this time they were tears of gratitude. As of Thursday night, the GoFundMe page had raised more than its initial $75,000 goal.

"We're gonna all come through this, OK, because this ain't just for us, just understand that," Johnson said. "We got work to do."