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  • Demise of Durgin-Park a symptom of challenges facing small restaurants

    01/05/2019 5:48:25 AM PST · by raccoonradio · 51 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | 1/5/19 | Marie Szaniszlo
    ...the restaurant will close on Jan. 12 because fewer customers are coming through the doors and costs have risen. Manager Kenneth Thimothee said the state’s new minimum hourly wage, which rose from $3.75 to $4.35 for tipped workers and from $11 to $12 for other employees, is partially to blame. And Durgin-Park will not be the only high-profile restaurant that will close this year, said Bob Luz, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. “We’re going to have a number coming up in the not-too-distant future,” Luz said, although he declined to say which ones. “It’s a confluence of...