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Date: 2009-02-06 05:51 am (UTC)No, you in fact do not know that. Yes it was a financial decision, but one thing you have to know about business, especially US business, is that financial loss is not always the reason when a "financial reason" is given.
The local blog had a quote from the former general manager which read, in part:
Over time, the changes and shifts in the market had a direct impact on the profitability of the restaurant. This, coupled with the current overall economic environment, resulted in our decision to close.
In other words, it could just as easily be that the restaurant was not making as much of a profit as the others were. Considering the downturn in the economy, doing a review of the overall financial woes of Burien (of which there are a lot) in comparison to the other store locations, and the cost of doing business in this location (a knowledge, perhaps, of the lease cost increasing severalfold, for example), they could just as easily decided that even though they were always busy, they would never actually increase revenue *enough* to override the loss that was coming, and to nip it in the bud before it became a financial loss against the other restaurants.
That's how chains think.