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Of western kentuck's most famous burger joints is still closed.despite being allowed to open back up at smaller capacity-- 44 news reporter tyler druin explains why the family- owned business says covid-19 isn the only thing keeping their doors shut.

"we hope that none of our customers will be angry with us because we've been shut down so long" in west kentucky everybody knows ferrell hamburgers for the last 91 years thousand of pounds of beef have been flipped on this grill - until now - gov.

Beshear's office has allowed restaurants to reopen at limited capacity - for smaller diner's like ferrell's taking out customer seating - means the business is still losing money- "we'd only be open for 33% - and as you can see 33% is not a great deal"known for mouthwatering hamburgers at an affordable price - but that could change - "well the people that worked at processing plants got sick with covid19" the demand for beef is sky rocketing - why supply is scarce"the price of meat is now at six dollars a pound - it was $1.75 a pound - we would have closed anyways or made the price of burgers so high - no one could afford them" for philip and his wife carolyn, they say that their dream come true - wont open until the governor allows at least 50% capacity while the restaurant isn making money, the ferrell's are continuing to reach into their pocket- showing support to their employees during a time of need just like the community has supported their family diner all these years "we've been paying our employees regardless of what happens, so once our indoor seating goes to 50% or the price of beef goes down, we will reopen" in madisonville tyler druin 44news the