Pleasanton-Based Specialty’s Café & Bakery Calls It Quits – Blames Losses Caused By COVID-19
Pleasanton-based Specialty’s Café & Bakery will close its 50 locations in three states – a prominent local victim of conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Specialty’s Cafe & Bakery is closing after 33 years of business. Current market conditions attributed to COVID-19 and shelter-in-place policies have decimated company revenues,” company officials wrote on the chain’s…
Assistance Program Helps Lafayette Businesses With Loan And Grant Applications
From the City of Lafayette: The City of Lafayette has partnered with the Chamber of Commerce and Townsend Public Affairs to launch the Lafayette Business Assistance Program, a way for Lafayette businesses and non-profits to get help on Small Business Administration (SBA) loan and grant applications. The City designed the program to make it as…
Are You Essential? Are You Open? Let People Know – List Your Business…
We’ve had a few requests for an up-to-date list of businesses intending to remain open and serving customers during this current health crisis. To that end we’ve started this “Essential and Open” Listing, open to any business up and running in the 24/680 which might care to add its business name/address/contact info and hours? –…
Stealth Closures Further Rattle Unsteady Local Restaurant Scene
Pick your reason: unforgiving landlords, an unforgiving and fickle public, changes in the national diet, corporate pressure on franchisees – the restaurant business, already tough, seems to be getting even tougher. Several recent closures of local eateries have set tongues to wagging in the 24/680, and hungry diners off in search of someone else to…
Looks Like Little Moraga Is Getting Its White Tablecloth Restaurant – La Finestra Preps Terzetto’s Space
It appears a lingering question in the game of musical chairs that is Moraga’s restaurant scene may finally be answered as Jeff Assadi prepares the space formerly occupied by Terzetto’s to serve as the new home of La Finestra. Some here may remember that Assadi was rather cruelly burned out of his old Lafayette location…
San Ramon Chamber Launches Shop Local Passport Program
From the San Ramon Chamber of Commerce: SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA. (July 25, 2018) — In support of Small Business Saturday on November 24th, the San Ramon Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the City of San Ramon, will launch a shop local Passport Program from Nov. 17 to Dec. 15, 2018. For more information about the…
Hammer Drops On Walnut Creek’s Redux Lounge; 45-Day License Suspension As “Disorderly House”
Agents of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) on Friday posted a Notice of Suspension at the Redux Lounge, 1411 Locust Street, in Walnut Creek – prohibiting the business from serving or selling alcohol for 45 days. In addition, the bar’s license has been placed on probation for three years, according to ABC.…