One More Closed Business

It makes me sick to see able body people grilling steaks and eating and drinking (lots of beer and alcohol) till the wee hours of the morning while our tax dollars pay for it all via foodstamps,while my family thinks about how we are going to eat cheaper because everything is going up but my paycheck..I know people who have been drawing unemployment for over 2 years and want to cry about how its running out and their aren't any jobs out there but yet they wouldn't work if you handed them a top paying job.In my opinion some of these people now feel entitled to taxpayer furnished hand outs and will be hard to get motivated.This is part of whats wrong with The economy,unmotivated freeloaders that the rest of us have to drag along,and I  respect the people out there that truly need help and have no issues with those people.

If these places only took food stamps they'd be doing well right now.

Taste of Memphis, located next to Marsh is no more!!! Closed about a week or so a go. Dispute among the owners is what I was told. So, one more business gone!!!

Looks like they are trying to de-brand the building by removing the hut shape and bright red shingles. Pizza Hut has done this on other buildings they've closed and sold (Hamilton Route 4 and Springdale Springfield Pike for example).

"Thanks I must have missed that.

Why are they putting a new roof on Pizza Hut?? Has it been sold already or are the current owners trying to spruce it up for a  future sale???

I believe the reason the Famer's Market was not very popular is because of the vendors.  On a sunny day I only ever saw 3 vendors; one being a vendor with fruit from a national supplier.  The Famer's Market could easily be successful if there were more vendors.

Spiderjohn

"just that simple" in your eyes. Support.

lol--good point mike

It's all about perspective I guess. 

For example, Pizza Hut—part of a global chain that operates in outdated locations—closes.  Not just in Middletown, but six other locations in Southwest Ohio.

But in the last several years, Middletown has seen two new pizza places opening: Marco's and Little Caesars (remember when there was a Little Caesars over in Kittywawk.  It shut down, only to have one open in the former Radio Shack location several years later.)

 LaRosa's also opened a sit-down restaurant with delivery options few years ago town.

Pizza Hut, at least for the time being, continues to operate a sit-down location on Verity.  And all indications are they will continue to operate their carryout location on Kittyhawk, just a short distance from the Breiel dine-in location.  My guess is they realized that could not competitively operate two dine-in and one carryout. 

Besides, with Cassano’s in town, who really needs any other pizza J They’ve done a nice remodel job on their Verity store!

The Rally’s on Breiel is a good example of being limited by the current structure.  There is no indoor dining.  You are limited to drive-up type businesses.  Rally’s and Hot-n-Now are the only two fast food chain concepts that I know of that utilize this model.  Basically, it would only be good for a to-go coffee place or some type of ice cream place.

Butternut-  horrible new location with bad signage.

This was taken from DDN on the Pizza Hut closings in SW Ohio.

The restaurant is one of seven Pizzas Huts that are closing in southwest Ohio. Four of the targeted stores are in Cincinnati, and one each in Hamilton and Middletown are either closed or slated to close in the coming weeks, Pizza Hut spokesman Chris Fuller said.

Fuller would not discuss the factors that led to the decision to close the seven restaurants, citing “competitive business reasons.” He also would not disclose how many are employed at the Englewood Pizza Hut.

Fuller said the restaurants that are closing may be remodeled and may reopen in their current location, or there may be other newly constructed Pizza Hut restaurants that could open nearby. But he said the chain is not ready to announce detailed plans.

A person who answered the phone at the Englewood Pizza Hut but who declined to give a name said the restaurant has nine employees, two of whom are transferring to other Pizza Hut locations.

The mood in the restaurant was somber, the employee said, although business was brisk at lunchtime on Monday, the restaurant’s last full day of operations.

The restaurant has been in its current location since the late 1960s, the employee said, “and people have heard we are closing and are coming in to say goodby

VietVet wrote: And now, Pizza Hut is gone along with Rally's a while back. Only have Long John Silvers and Wendy's and we'll have an entire block down to Subway vacant. Still not sending any signal of urgency for the city leadership I guess. Wonder what will make them sit up and take note?????