www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/28/you-need-to-prepare-yourselves-how-a-good-review-can-destroy-a-restaurant
"In a piece on the website Thrillist headlined: “I found the best burger place in America. And then I killed it,” Kevin Alexander last week made an unusual confession. Uncommonly extensive research (330 restaurants tested across 30 states over the course of 12 months) had led the award-winning food writer to compile, last year, a 100-strong power list of the best burgers in the US. Now he was reporting on how, within five months of publication, the mom-and-pop joint that made No 1 on that list – Stanich’s, in Portland, Oregon – had been forced to close, supposedly succumbing to the pressures that come from being overrun by burger tourists. It didn’t help that “personal problems” made rising to the challenge of the restaurant’s newfound popularity too difficult for Stanich’s proprietor. Alexander was feeling awful about it."
this is based on this story:
www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-quest
However at the time the Guardian article was published the fact that the story was a load of crap had already been been discussed elsewhere.
The author of the story, a Kevin Alexander, apparently liked the restaurant because it was essentially stuck in the past when men were men etc.
The owner of the restaurant, said
"He asked me not to reveal the details of that story, but I can say that there were personal problems"
In fact the owner strangled his wife, who had/has stage 4 breast cancer, on at least four separate occasions
pdxmugshots.com/search/?last_name=STANICH&first_name=STEVEN&
and then tried to avoid paying her divorce settlement as well
jezebel.com/the-making-of-a-sympathetic-man-1830718805