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Ebbett’s owners Suzanne Schafer & Shari Washburn recently alerted us that she had sold her food truck that has been in operation since 2009. Ebbett’s has been a fixture of…

Semifreddi’s Café on Claremont Avenue, a decades-long mainstay for cinnamon bread, baguettes, hot panini, coffee and hot chocolate, will shut its doors Sept. 30. Tom Frainier, Semifreddi’s president, said several factors…

“Another one bites the dust in San Francisco,” said pastry chef Cheryl Storms, who owned the sister businesses — one a restaurant, the other a pastry shop — with partner…

Ashley Furniture announced in August that it will close its production and warehouse facility in Colton, California, in October. The location employed 840 people, who will be laid off. Production…

“Unfortunately the rapidly changing labor market for the hospitality industry has resulted in immediate, substantial increases in payroll expenses that we could not absorb through price increases. In the last…

Tri Tipps is closing at the end of the business day on Saturday, White said. … While White said he sold the restaurant to move on to other opportunities –…

Diner co-owner Larry Georgeton was not shy about placing blame for his restaurant’s demise: “The minimum wage, that’s what broke the camel’s back.  It killed us.”  He said that to stay…

The Castro’s iconic Cafe Flore, a popular LGBT hangout for the past four decades, is for sale. … Unlike the sale of many other local businesses, the owners were not prompted…

Scott Singley, assistant manager of The Almost Perfect Bookstore in Roseville, didn’t mention the rise of electronic books as a reason for closing. Instead, he attributed the store’s…

Noted Portland chef Andy Ricker told the Business Journal late last month that a bevy of factors — Oregon’s higher minimum wage and new sick leave…