Amid a statewide restaurant shutdown with no clear end in sight, chef Suzanne Goin and restaurateur Caroline Styne have decided to permanently close Lucques, their 21-year-old Californian-Mediterranean restaurant, a month and a half early.Sunday that the duo had laid off their staff, spent the last few days packing up the Melrose Avenue space and were now closed for good.
“Definitely not how @carolinestyne and i had envisioned it,” she wrote. “When we announced a week ago wednesday we had a job planned for every lucques employee—72 hours later we were in the unimaginable position of laying off our staffs at all the restaurants—people we love like family, people who can not sustain this shutdown...our hearts are broken.”earlier this month that it would close on May 6.
Goin ended her post by thanking employees for working “with us to the bitter end despite being laid off.” “We love you and we will do everything to be there for you now and on the other side of this hell. But we need help,” she said, tagging the handles for several government officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Eric Garcetti.
My heart is breaking for their staff.
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Why 'for good'? Why can't they reopen once this passes?
It’s $4 a week $16 a month $192 a year lol itsnotadollar lol
byandreachang only got to go once but it was a great sunday meal
szkoda, może jeszcze później?
billmaher and friends are winning by losing, yay
Ugh, this is heartbreaking. I loved that restaurant.
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