The closing did not come as a surprise to aceranchero:
I was in Mod Livin' Friday afternoon--not a single customer in the restaurant.For that matter, the streets were devoid of pedestrians, shoppers, foot traffic. Good luck with that turf, Marzyck's. (You would have been very welcome in Ballpark or Highlands.)
Then again, here's the view from eastcolfaxhoofer:
C'mon, who is he [Moore] kidding? The writing was on the wall when Marczyk's started building out their new store 2 blocks away. Nobody in the neighborhood is going to buy an expensive restaurant burger when they can make a better one at home. And the market for driving to an expensive restaurant burger is limited. Toss in the fact that his backdoor neighbors always treated him like shit, and the incentive to try to keep it going is zero. Wrong concept in the wrong neighborhood. But kudos to him for not reminding us of his shitty neighbors.
Those "shitty neighbors," BTW, are not the folks behind Marzcyk's II, which opened a week ago and just held a grand opening bash on Saturday, but the whiners who were concerned when the Little Orange Rocket would park in the alley outside Deluxe Burger -- an alley that Roorda and Warner own.
Ultimately, it seems like the partners -- who have more fish to fry than burgers -- were just fed up with all the hassles.
