Saying Goodbye...to a restaurant.
A popular restaurant just closed down by me. There wasn't much fanfare except for some social media posts(not by the place itself). I was shocked. I had been eating there since the mid-70s; tons of memories came swirling back:
My little league team piling in after a game(we lost pretty much every one).
My family eating there, all four of us;
My first ever "date", when I was in 7th grade.
Hundreds of meals since then, more so when I moved closer in the late 90s.
The reason? Higher price margins made it hard to make money. Nothing is replacing it; it will just be vacant, a further apparition and reminder of what used to be.
As I left for the final time yesterday, I said "I had my first date here!", only to hear "We had ours here too!" from a couple as I walked through the door.
50 years of going there, gone in a flash. Anyone else miss a place that meant a lot?
My little league team piling in after a game(we lost pretty much every one).
My family eating there, all four of us;
My first ever "date", when I was in 7th grade.
Hundreds of meals since then, more so when I moved closer in the late 90s.
The reason? Higher price margins made it hard to make money. Nothing is replacing it; it will just be vacant, a further apparition and reminder of what used to be.
As I left for the final time yesterday, I said "I had my first date here!", only to hear "We had ours here too!" from a couple as I walked through the door.
50 years of going there, gone in a flash. Anyone else miss a place that meant a lot?
