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Joe Mears, a chef at SeventeenNinety Restaurant finishes serving a dinner for a patron of the restaurant in Signal Mountain.Staff File Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press
After 13 months, the owners of the Southern Star restaurant have closed their Seventeen Ninety restaurant atop Signal Mountain.
The 90-seat restaurant closed Wednesday night for the last time. Nancy Adams, who owned and operated the Signal Mountain eatery with her husband Rick, blamed the closing on both business volume and staffing problems. An adjacent take-out business on Signal Mountain and the Southern Star restaurant downtown will stay open, Adams said.
“We just weren’t doing the sales that we needed to do,” she said about the Taft Highway restaurant on Signal Mountain. “Friday and Saturdays were good, but during the week there just wasn’t enough to keep it going.”
The restaurant closing will cost about 10 jobs, but Adams said she hopes some of the displaced workers will be able to shift to the Southern Star or the take-out business.
The restaurant, which opened in February 2011, was named for Signal Mountain’s elevation in feet.
Dave Flessner is the business editor for the Times Free Press. A journalist for 35 years, Dave has been business editor and projects editor for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, city editor for The Chattanooga Times, business and county reporter for the Chattanooga Times, correspondent for the Lansing State Journal and Ingham County News in Michigan, staff writer for the Hastings Daily Tribune in Nebraska, and news director for WCBN-FM in Michigan. Dave, a native ...
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