5 restaurants oldest closing for good this year
These long-standing favorites seemed immune to failure. Then came Covid.
On17% of American restaurants Terration for the good this year thanks to Covid-19. This is one of the most difficult statistics out of this pandemic.
In fact, the American restaurant industry has beenso devastated by the pandemic that the word "devastated" does not even seem to cut it. Among the victims arehundreds of places of chain of restaurants that have closed this summer, as well as these15 famous restaurants that many had assumed would be around forever.
But what about restaurants that reallyhaveYou have been around forever, like New York's 258-year-old fraunches tavern? So far, the house at one of theThe most emblematic desserts of America is suspended but forHow long? After all, each of the following restaurants had always been always - or at least for 60 years or more.
They survived such challenges that wars, terrorist attacks, economic slowdowns and, in some cases, prohibitions and pandemic Spanish flu from 1918. However, no one could survive the coronavir pandemic. Read it to learn the sad destinies of these oldest restaurants that end for the good this year.
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The 21 club
Beloved New YorkClub '21' First open at 21 years 52nd Street on January 1, 1930. In mid-December, the restaurant told its 150 employees that it would close its doors.
The Clubby, Artsy Cheri Celebrities for almost a century managed to survive the prohibition, the great depression and the two world wars before meeting his match in the form of the new coronavirus and hisRelated public health restrictions.
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Jules Maes Saloon
The beloved of SeattleJules Maes Saloon, which opened in July 1888, it would close its doors forever. Occupying the historic brick brick building in the Georgetown district of the city, Jules Maes was famous for its impressive collection of fog beer and selection of bar bars, including its epic flat plate, a muffled thermal dish box In cheese, bacon, dice tomatoes, onions, and sour cream.
Jules Maes Saloon survived the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, among others, and was considered by some as "the bar that will not disappear". However, he had been clogged since early March to comply withCOVID-19 Restrictions, leaving his uncertain future. The final blow was a dispute between its owner and its owner compared to the rental.
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Clarke charcoal flesh
After 75 years of serving its famous cheeseburgers of bacon and cheeses from Chile, fries Chile to customers loyal to mountain view, California, the owners of Clake's Charboal Broiler announced early April that the pandemic had been their failure .
"The Virus Covid-19 ... has had a devastating impact on operations," said the owner Steve BlachVoice view, Whose readers had had many years, voted the best burger in Clarke City. "It could be another 18 months until we came back where we were before the virus," he added to the precious.
And takeaway was not going to save the beloved burger articulation. "You have to sell a lot of hamburgers - a lot of burgers," Blach explained. And that would have meant that the drawing cases of other popular burger suppliers from the mountain view, two of whichBURGER AND OUT BURGER Premises.
Uncle Andy dinner
Uncle Andy dinner Open to South Portland, Maine in 1954, but he really struck his stride 17 years ago when Dennis Fogg ended. Before entering the restaurants sector, Fogg was a professional comedian. As a restaurant, he set up his creativity and his sense of humor to win adults and children (good, especially children, who could get theirCrepes In any form, they wanted, dinosaurs with butterflies elephants).
But all this is now, as they say, the story. In May,Uncle Andy dinner, which had been presented twice on the makeup of the restoration, close its doors forever. Having been closed for similar clients for nearly two months to inflict the fatal blow to the company, which was largely based on his Fogg Standing Breakfast and Personality Worship, according to theHerald.
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Milton Inn
The restaurant of the Milton Inn in Sparks, MD, which opened in 1950, was another beloved restaurant that nothing, not even the Korean war, civil unrest, several recessions, or on September 11, managed to undermine. Then he came the coronavirus novel, and everything fell into pieces, like PHYLLO too cooked (Phyllo wild mushroom was a signature dish at the hostel).
"This company poses great challenges that I conquered every day," wrote / owner Brian Boston on the hostel website, according to the Sun of Baltimore . "Unfortunately, the Pandemic of Covid was a challenge I could not overcome." With overwhelming financial losses due to the closure of the restaurant at the beginning of the pandemic, Boston found "impossible to re-opened".
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