From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   David Samuel Barr  wrote:   
   > Just saw this in rec.food.restaurants:   
   >   
   > On 9/7/2024 6:13 PM, Democrat incompetence wrote:   
   >> ST. LOUIS — LoRusso’s Cucina, a longtime Italian restaurant in south St.   
   >> Louis, is closing.   
   >>   
   >> The restaurant’s final day of service will be Sept. 29, said owner Terri   
   >> LoRusso. Terri and her late husband, Rich, opened LoRusso’s in 1986.   
   >>   
   >> The closure comes as LoRusso said the restaurant has faced several   
   >> challenges in recent years, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to her   
   >> husband’s death in 2022. LoRusso said she “just couldn’t give up the   
   >> restaurant,” but increased supply chain costs have eaten into the   
   >> restaurant’s margins. LoRusso said she didn’t want to keep operating the   
   >> business if it would have required taking on debt.   
   >>   
   >> LoRusso said she considered selling the restaurant but opted against it.   
   >>   
   >> “It didn’t take me long to realize I didn’t really want to sell. I   
   just   
   >> didn’t want to take the chance of somebody taking over and not doing   
   >> justice to the food, to the service and all that,” she said.   
   >>   
   >> https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/business-journal/lorussos-italian-   
   >> restaurant-closing-south-st-louis/63-aa78bb8a-052a-4b6e-afbd-8f9be468aa0a   
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