OLYMPIA, Wash. – A woman who lost her restaurant in a landslide is going to have a very Merry Christmas thanks to another business owner she had never met before.

It's been a busy month for Melanie Tapia. She's in the middle of moving her business, The Ranch House BBQ, into the lobby of downtown Olympia's Governor Hotel. She hopes to be open late next week.

"We're going to do some painting, put up some wagon wheels," says Tapia.

Three weeks ago, the Ranch House was full of mud after a landslide knocked sections of the restaurant off the foundation.

"Definitely makes you stand back and look at where you've been and where you're going," says Tapia.

The owners have every intention on repairing, rebuilding and reopening the Ranch House BBQ at its original location, but that could take a year. In the meantime, they'll be in business at the Governor Hotel rent free.

"I had a functioning kitchen with a functioning restaurant and didn't have anyone in it," says Sandra Miller, general manager of the Governor Hotel. She offered her restaurant space for free, indefinitely, to give the Ranch House owners a chance to get back on their feet.

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The inside of the Ranch House BBQ restaurant in Olympia, Wash. is nothing but mud after this month's floods.

Just weeks after feeling like they had lost everything, the owners of the Ranch House feel like they're getting it all back, thanks to help from strangers.

"That's like the biggest gift anyone can give," says Tapia.

The Ranch House owners say they'll need a lot of help to reopen their original location. The best way the public can help is to have lunch or dinner there when they open in downtown Olympia next week.