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After 30 years in business, Mesilla Valley Bakery has shut its doors for good. The owner, Jeffrey O’Brien, cited increased labor costs due to the city’s rising minimum wage as the main…

After 107 years, the restaurant and diner side of a business that Nanette Hullar’s now owns will shut down. New York’s higher minimum wage rate was one of the crucial…

Coup des Tartes has served French cuisine for 22 years to thousands of anniversaries, birthdays, and other guests, according to owner Ron Pacioni. But the minimum wage hike in Phoenix…

New York’s minimum wage law is forcing Kirk Gilchrist, the owner of Cici’s Pizza in Watertown, to shut down. He served pizzas for 7 years and had 10 employees on…

After six years in downtown Walnut Creek, the soul food restaurant Home of Chicken and Waffles has closed.

In late July, shocked Lark Creek Walnut Creek customers were greeted with papered restaurant windows and a sign on the door with a simple message, “Thank you for your patronage…

Marie’s Cafe and Catering, a popular stop for brunch in Mount Greenwood, will close for good at the end of the day on Sunday (…

When critically acclaimed chef Matthias Merges closed Yusho Hyde Park earlier this month, after a three-year run, his Folkart Restaurant Management company released a simple explanatory statement, which said the…

“Seattle is no longer an environment where our business model works,” the store said in a news release. “The aggregate effect of rising costs of doing business, consumer purchasing shifts,…

Italian deli and grocer A.G. Ferrari is closing the doors on all its shops after 98 years, in what the brand says is a move to focus on the…