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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Hotdog connected a Stick astatine Sierra Vista Mall is closing its doors for bully - franchise owners accidental the pugnacious system has made it excessively hard to support going.
Owner Rosalind Butler Patrick says that aft having weathered the tempest that was the COVID-19 Pandemic, which saw galore storefront businesses struggle, "the tempest took over."
"The system is decidedly antithetic from the pandemic," Patrick said. "With labor, outgo of goods, income being down for this promenade - we decided it was the champion determination financially to close."
Patrick says the emergence of minimum wage for accelerated nutrient workers wounded her arsenic good arsenic a tiny business. Without a flagship store astatine the Sierra Vista Mall, Patrick says that determination was simply not financially viable contempt enactment from customers.
"They emotion our product. They emotion our food." Patrick said. "For it to beryllium gone and not here, adjacent though they whitethorn not person visited that often, it's conscionable unfortunate that's a small spot of their puerility gone away."
Kimberly Mathershed says she volition miss seeing Patrick connected her walks done the promenade and drinking the lemonade successful the summer.
"[They've been here] since Sears was unfastened and Gottschalks was around," Mathershed said. "I hatred that we mislaid Sears, Gottschalks and present this."
Patrick says the Fashion Fair Mall's Hotdog connected a instrumentality and her catering work volition inactive beryllium disposable for customers to get their hole of Hot Dog connected a Stick.
