However, racing isn’t the only industry Faulk is involved in. He and his wife are silent partners in a restaurant, McNulty’s Taproom in Blythewood, S.C., which has been affected following South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster’s decision to close all restaurants in the state to dine-in customers.
“That’s really more challenging,” Faulk admitted. “We have a great general manager at the restaurant. They’ve been coming up with really good ideas and things to kind of keep it rolling. And so far, knock on wood, we haven’t seen any anything catastrophic numbers wise. I mean obviously we had to close the inside down for indoor dining, but we were lucky enough to have an outdoor patio and some carry out options and things like that. The city of Blythewood has been really lenient on us actually as far as laws go and as far as trying to help local businesses survive through this.
“We did have to send some of the servers home and things like that, but we’re working out a package for them to kind of help them out for the future and we can’t wait to get them back too. I feel confident that our management team at the restaurant’s going to do the right thing and we’ll all get through this together on that end too.”
Faulk admits that while he and his businesses are, so far, in a good position, there are a lot of people out there who aren’t as fortunate. However, he is a firm believer things will eventually work out and the country and the world will rebound.
“It’s a bad deal for everybody,” Faulk admitted. “I think it’s gonna change the way America in general does business in the future. I think there’ll be some changes in corporate America for sure and maybe for the good. You never know. Everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for everything and I feel like maybe we were just getting a little bit too big for our britches here and now we needed a little reality check. So I think as bad as it is for everybody and as much short-term losses it’s going to cause, I think the long-term effects of this may be a positive and whether it is or whether it isn’t, that’s the way I’ve got to look at it. And I hope everybody else looks at it that way.
“Everybody just stay positive and enjoy their time with their families,” Faulk continued. “That’s one thing I have noticed. I have noticed going home and just driving around back and forth to work, I see more people spending time with their family and outdoors playing with her kids and off their phones and off their tablets than ever before. If you can look for the positive in things like this, I think you’ll find them.”