to be illogically sad about a restaurant closing?

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

There is a restaurant in the village near me that is closing down today. It's in a lovely building that was built in the very early 1900s. It was originally a grocery shop but has been a restaurant for a long time, since before I was born so at least 50 years. I know that they were objecting to the building being made fully protected (equivalent to listed in the UK) and were asking for it to be protected externally only because of the cost and difficulty of running a restaurant when every minor change needs approval. So I guess they lost the objection. It's apparently going to be 'redeveloped'.

It's not the place that I grew up, but when I was a child my Mum ran a shop in the same village so I have memories of it from the past, plus the DC love going there for weekend brunch so I have great recent memories too.

I know lots of restaurants are on the verge of failing because of the pandemic, but I had hoped this one would make it. They were doing great order-and-collect business because the locals wanted to support them. I think the Protected Structure order was the straw the broke the camel's back.

I know what you mean, our local pub closed down. I don't drink, but it's a community hub, everyone I went to school with drinks in there. I know where to find anyone I need, I can pop in and ask for a plumber or sparkie and I'll get a recommendation. We all had our birthdays, weddings, funerals and parties in the function suite. It's a real shame for the whole community.

It's being Tesco-ised and turned into flats

That's not illogical at all. It really is very sad. I totally get it. We have a department store in our city that closed. I have known it most of my life. I would get gifts there every Christmas and I just think of all the life it held and saw. All those people that worked there and shopped there. And it's sad to see a building become an empty shell.

But hopefully this building will go on to live another life. Sill sad though.

But on another thread on here virtually every poster is saying a cafe is being unreasonable paying minimum wage.

Problem is in their country is the majority of the population don't put their money where their mouth is.

The overheads for a small business are becoming unsustainable. I think there will be a lot more sad stories like this.

Some gorgeous old pubs around me have closed down and been turned in to Tesco. It’s so bloody sad to see a beautiful old building with that ugly branding all over it.

Where I used to live a bank closed down, tesco applied to take over and had the lease etc etc but the local community rallied round and did huge protests so they pulled out last minute.
Lots of talk of the community buying it, turns out it had huge structural needs which tesco were going to pay for.
5 years later its an eyesore and is slowly falling down.
Sometimes a tesco is better than a ruined building.
A shame about the restaurant, and the pandemic has closed large swathes of small places where I live.

nope

I wept when our local Chinese shut down. possibly more than I should have due to pregnancy hormones and my cravings, but 18 years later we still mention it because it was the best damn takeaway place.

I suspect it's most likely to be turned into an estate agency, because there's only two of them in the village at the moment (out of maybe 12 shops).