Customers return to Bolsa, which has reopened after a triple slaying. (CBC)

A restaurant that was the scene of a triple slaying on New Year's Day has reopened its doors.

The owners of Bolsa Vietnamese restaurant in southeast Calgary not only renovated, but brought in a pastor to bless their business — and the neighbourhood — before the reopening.

Viet Tran said he was worried that no one would eat at the restaurant after hearing about the deadly shooting, but his concerns evaporated as soon as he opened his doors.

"The customers, they come here very happy, refreshed, not worried, nothing. They happy. They say hi, they hug me."

Loyal customer Rachel Jacobs said she and her co-workers are regulars and were comfortable returning.

"We were mostly just waiting for the day they opened again so we could come back. We just love it here," she said.

Known gang member Sanjeev Mann, 22, and Aaron Bendle, whom police called an associate of Mann, were gunned down in the restaurant on Jan. 1. An innocent bystander, Keni Su'a, was killed outside the restaurant at Macleod Trail and 94 Street S.E., police said.

No arrests have been made.

Tran's wife, Dan Dang, was in the kitchen when she heard gunshots that day.

"I didn't see nothing when it happened but I see the people die on the floor," she recalled. "I very scared."

She said she was nervous coming back to work again. But she said her family and the church gave her strength to return.