As Vincent walked into the storefront alone he looked around and sighed, both in reminiscence of the days past working here before being brought to equestria, and sadness at the mess it has become, both from showing up in ponyville and disuse. Glass, dishes and signs lay around broken, he'll need to buy some new stuff. A few of the chairs and tables were turned over, probably from the fall. And a layer of dust on most of the stuff that isnt knocked over or broken "Whelp, time to clean up I guess. HEY PINKIE! You wanna come help clean up? I'll make you some cookies later." He partially bellowed so she could hear through the closed door.
He had barely finished the last sentence before she was through the door cleaning up, tail as a broom and dustpan in her hooves. "Okey dokey lokey mister Vinny sir. Can I help make the cookies?" She said with a smile, a giggle and a partial mane salute.
Vincent sighed, smiled and shook his head "Never change Pinkie, of course you can help." He righted a table and started humming to a shanty he listened to a bit before being brought here. He started righting the rest of the furniture and thinking about some of the things he'd bring back when he reopens, like the Christmas day meal, free birthday drink and slice of cake, and the push it forward tickets. As he was thinking about these a thought came to mind "Oh, I'm probably gonna have to let mr and mrs cake know I'm going to be quitting soon, so I can reopen the café."
As he finished saying that Twilight and the princesses walked in, Twilight was already asking questions "Vincent, what did you mean that this building is yours? Did you make it? Was it made with magic? Or maybe brought here by someone? I think I need to gather my supplies so I can investigate, I'll talk to you later Vincent, bye Pinkie, bye Princesses." She rambled on and started leaving before he could even say hi.
"Hi Twiggles, bye Twiggles. Well that sure was a great conversation, but she was clearly very excited. So, Luna, Celery* since she's gone and Pinkie is busy cleaning, would you two like to know more about this building?" He asked taking a seat on a newly placed chair.
Luna and Celestia both nodded and took a seat, which was a bit of a struggle as the chairs were made for humans. "Please Vincent, I'd love to understand what you ment about the building." Celestia said as she finally found a good way to sit on the seat.
"Well, the building wasn't actually mine, I guess it is now cause its here, and I was renting the space inside, both the café here and the apartment upstairs. I was renting the space for several years before being brought here by discord, I opened and ran this cafe, lived upstairs and had a pretty nice time. No I didnt bring it here, atleast I'm pretty sure I didnt, to he honest I've barely thought about this place cause I figured I'd never get home. I will be reopening this place if I can, I might need some help though." He said wiping off the table infront of the three of them.
Pinkie pie bounced over with a full trash can and smiled at him "Hey Vinny, I finished cleaning up the broken stuff, anything else I can help with? Oooh are we gonna make the cookies now?" Pinkie asked fairly excitedly, bouncing like a paint shaker.
"Well I have to finish standing the chairs and tables, dust the store, and do some inventory, then we can make cookies.... Oh wait I need to check my funds to see if I can actually buy some stock." He listed off all the things he had left to do. He quickly finished righting the tables and chairs, then went to the back to do inventory.