JK’s restaurant in Danbury is for sale after 98 years
2 min readDANBURY — A loved ones-owned cafe that obtained its begin selling two warm dogs and a cup of espresso for 25 cents and became 1 of the city’s famous eateries is for sale so the proprietors can “enjoy existence a small.”
“In this company, you have to set 100 % into it and we generally set 100 percent into it,” said Peter Koukos, whose grandfather and grand uncle started off JK’s Primary Texas Hot Weiners on White Avenue in 1924. “We are not retiring due to the fact we are burned out — the organization is going sturdy, but it’s time to love daily life a minimal.”
Koukos, 62, is referring to a family members-run company which survived the Excellent Melancholy, Environment War II, the flood of 1955 and the coronavirus pandemic by serving quintessential household fare at reasonable costs. The menu at JK’s cafe, which has been on South Street for 48 yrs, options cheeseburgers, club sandwiches and grinders — all for below $12.
“The pandemic didn’t affect us at all,” said Koukos soon just before the lunch rush on Tuesday, referring to the COVID-19 epidemic that shut down scores of eating places throughout Connecticut and the country all through its two-12 months scourge. “We just improved the way we did small business.”
Koukos and his older brother George hope the new entrepreneurs select up in which the household tradition has remaining off — preferring quality over every little thing else.
A serious estate listing for the restaurant states as substantially.
“Many organizations, primarily throughout pandemic moments, did not make it this individual company thrived through the shut down and nevertheless proceeds to improve and could expand to even extra,” claimed a listing by Coldwell Banker Realty. “The hours, menu, catering, off site special activities, in household specific activities, takeout, supply, food items truck, and quite a few more strategies could grow this enterprise and even turn into a franchise.”
To take more than the enterprise and the restaurant at 126 South St. will expense you $2.2 million, in accordance to the listing.
“For pretty much 100 a long time, this spot has been a model and a staple in city, and you could be the a person to capitalize off of its legacy and make it your possess,” the listing reads. “The loved ones who owns this would appreciate almost nothing more than (to have) able and ready folks to go off the many years of devotion … with the same aspiration.”
Kouskos stated he has been telling consumers who have listened to the news that the spouse and children has each and every intention of advertising to a new operator with similar values.
“They say, ‘Oh no, you cannot do that,’ and I say ‘JK’s will be the identical,’” Koukos said. “That is our intention. The new proprietors will do that if they are good. There is no motive to reinvent the wheel.”
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