reineraggie09 said:
Costa and Andreas said:
Just for clarity on the food in northgate issue, there is an ordinance against being open to serve food/be open after 2am in NG-1. The authorities want everyone out of there asap at closing. Before anyone asks, yes this includes food trucks, restaurants etc that don't serve alcohol.
The clear beneficiaries are Taco Bell, McDonald's, Fuego, Burger Mojo etc.
I wonder if this is one of the reasons Antonio's left. I thought I remember them being open until 3
Absolutely it was one of the reasons. Steve Reves, a fellow Greek and friend from Providence, RI, is the founder of Antonio's. When they opened here they never hit the numbers that the New England stores hit, but they did ok. He was willing to live with that. Mostly, his NE stores had way more pedestrian traffic than here.
Once the 2am thing hit, they dropped in sales significantly. With what was an already mediocre performance situation that he was already living with that then got further degraded in sales, he looked for an exit. His NE stores always were doing double the sales of this one. I can only imagine that after the 2am thing that the CS store went down to 1/3. He was very happy to be done last time we spoke.