Beth's Cafe owner tells employees the decades-old diner will close next week
Beth’s Cafe, a decades-old Seattle icon, is going to close again until further notice.
Owner Hazel Dalton said she hopes the decision will help the restaurant stay open in the long term.
“I’m trying to get the cafe to a place where it’s successful,” she said in an interview on Friday. “I’m trying to make the best financial decisions possible so we can carry on for another 50 or 60 years.”
The cafe temporarily closed in October when occupancy limits on restaurants were in place to combat the spread of COVID-19. At the time, the cafe said in a Facebook post that it wasn’t “economically feasible working at 50% occupancy” and would reopen when it was able to operate at 100% capacity. The cafe reopened in July with new hours — pre-pandemic, it had been open 24-hours a day.
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