The “Northwest comfort food” chain Shari’s Cafe & Pies abruptly closed all its Oregon eating places this week.
Open all evening, and plenty of of them near the freeway, the eating places in low-roofed hexagonal buildings had been a mainstay for Interstate 5 roadtrippers because the Nineteen Seventies.
KGW had earlier reported that the chain was dealing with mounting money owed, together with to the Oregon Lottery for proceeds from the video lottery terminals within the eating places.
In accordance with the Oregonian, there have been 42 Shari’s places in Oregon at one level final 12 months, and that quantity had dropped to 17 by final weekend. Now the rest within the state have closed.
There aren’t any studies of closures among the many 16 websites in Northern California, Washington and Idaho. The California eating places are in San Bruno (I-280 and Sneath), Rohnert Park, Sacramento and Purple Bluff.