12/1/2023 0 Comments Second chance diner![]() ![]() ![]() Bottomless black coffee will be replaced by venti half-caf lattes at a drive-thru Starbucks on the site.įreeway closed in 2015 after 37 years on Route 41. Olga's at the Marlton circle was leveled.įreeway Diner in Deptford was demolished too. New Golden Dawn in Maple Shade is now a parking lot.Ĭountry Club Diner in Voorhees became an urgent care center. Several - like Geets in Williamstown - were lucky to find new life with new buyers reopening the famed eateries. South Jersey lost several beloved diners in recent history. Watch Video: Watch: Police officer leaves $100 tip on $8 diner check for pregnant South Jersey waitress Local diners on the decline "They naturally have to sell it or close it," he said. Now, Tsinakis believes some kids who became professionals outside of the restaurant biz aren't clamoring to get back in to take over for their parents. Their diners' successes paid for their kids' college educations. "There really needs to be an owner on at all times."ĭiner owners, he said, are getting older and they're getting tired. "This is really a hands-on business where we have to work 70, 80, 90 hours a week just to operate," he explained. Running one, though, is grueling, Tsiknakis, a father of three young daughters, said. New Jersey has historically been the land of diners, known for comfort food and a come-as-you-are atmosphere. More: Brooklawn's Metro Diner closes, makes way for Wawa New Jersey, the land of diners "You can have good beer at many restaurants, but not good food," he said. "Myself and a lot of professionals in the industry think that's why it didn't do well." PB's owners "got away from that concept," he explained. "They concept here was 'your hometown diner,'" Tsiknakis said. A new, smaller bar was built in near the diner's entrance. Monarch maintains the liquor licenses it bought with the property in the Sheriff's sale. When he took it over, the building was in bad shape, Tsiknakis said. The entire interior of the building was renovated. The bar area's high-top tables are replaced with booths. The bar area where PB's Diner once served 20 beers on tap is converted back to a traditional diner counter, with swiveling stools and a pastry case. Tsiknakis cut the ribbon on the restaurant last week. "We're building diners and other are selling them to Wawa." "We're a dying breed," Tsinakis said of New Jersey diner owners. He recently sold his ownership stake in the Lamp Post Diner. Since the Metro, Tsinakis has owned the Lamp Post Diner in Gloucester Township, the Red Lion Diner in Southampton Township and the Marblehead Chowder House in Easton, Pennsylvania. The iconic eatery on Route 130 and Browning Road was sold to Wawa and demolished last year. He sold his ownership stake in Metro in 2013. When he was 22 - and newly laid off as a Merrill Lynch financial analyst - Tsinakis bought Ponzio's in Brooklawn, transforming it in to the Metro Diner. The Monarch Diner is the fourth restaurant he's owned in the last decade. That's how Tsanikis, 33, acquired the eatery and its liquor license, he told the Courier Post last month. ![]() More than two years ago, the fate was uncertain for PB's, which opened in 1953. The owners filed for bankruptcy in 2013 and the property was up for a Sheriff's sale in June 2017. Monarch Diner bustled in its first week open at the former site of PB's Diner here. GLASSBORO - With a blue ball-point pen tucked behind his ear, Paul Tsinakis patrolled the rows of diner booths with a smile and a carafe of hot coffee. Watch Video: What's it like to run a diner in NJ?
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