PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — While many restaurants are struggling, most restaurateurs don’t talk about their woes until they suddenly close, but the owner of The Friendly Toast in the city and in Cambridge, Mass., is laying it all out there: The restaurants are in jeopardy, and she’s not shy about saying so, reports the Portsmouth Herald.

Melissa Jasper, who owns the restaurants with her husband, Robert, opened the Congress Street eatery 16 years ago and a similar restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., in May. The Jaspers are in serious debt, there’s a lien on her home and, while Melissa Jasper said both restaurants are busy, she needs cash to keep them going.