Daily Dining News: The Last Word on Good Eats
August 18, 2011
Sac Bee's Bob Shallit gets the one thing nobody could get earlier this week -- official comment from the owners of Good Eats on why they closed. (See Part 1 and Part 2 of this saga from earlier this week.)
"There was a lack of business," says Michael Teel, the Raley's CEO who owned Good Eats with his wife, Julie Rollofson Teel.
Teel says the couple tried to get landlords to renegotiate rents that were set several years ago, when the economy was stronger. But, he says, they were unsuccessful.
"With no rent concessions, it wasn't doable," he says of the business that opened last summer after more than two years of fits and starts, including an ill-fated detour when Teel opened a Good Eats in Arizona.
Read the entire story in the Sac Bee.
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Yeah i wasn't surprised by the closure at all. The deli food sat, restaurant was marginal and it was expensive. Love the location and feel though. Perhaps the next place will have high turn over like Gayle's in Capitola!
Posted by: Chris harris | August 18, 2011 at 03:37 PM