I took this photo last August as I was walking around downtown Chicago. It literally caught my eye. It's an emblem from a famous restaurant, located on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building. It is (was) one of those posh restaurants where people had to make reservation months ahead and put money down as a down payment in order to keep their reservation open until the needed time.
Well, the restaurant abruptly closed last Thursday, after 30 years in operation and basically did not inform anyone including their employees until the closing day.
You can imagine the upheavel it caused, especially for those people who had paid for their reserveration.I'll be curious to see if anyone else takes over the restaurant or whether this emblem will just become another memorabilia.
That is such a low blow to those employees - I feel nothing for those who lost a deposit for a reservation because that was not their livelihood that disappeared. I will bet that most of those employees had been there for many years and had no pension - not unusual in the restaurant business.
ReplyDeleteOhh 😮 ... That was really heartless!
ReplyDeleteLove the emblem but that stinks when company's do that, there was a restaurant here that was a landmark that had been here forever and they closed one night and put notes on their doors saying closed forever told no one
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