Comings & Goings: Want your favorite stores and restaurants to survive? Stay local
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Coming: Raising Cain’s Chicken Fingers is set to open in late November or early December in the former Watermelon Music site downtown. Wendy Weitzel/Courtesy photo
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Every Sunday, I offer insight on businesses changes in the area. Is that restaurant closed? Why? What will take its place? These are questions I asked 20 years ago as managing editor of The Enterprise. I continue today because we’re all still curious, and these small, independent businesses need our support.
We’re lucky in Davis to have a thriving downtown and residents who understand the importance of shopping locally. This column would not be possible in Roseville, which is filled with chain retailers. I can call a landlord or merchant and they’ll probably talk to me. When I try to contact most large companies about one of their stores, I’m lucky if I get a canned response a week later
It’s clear one of the biggest stories of 2020 was the pandemic’s pummeling of small, local businesses. And just as the year wound down, downtown Davis suffered two blows: the closure of B & L Bike Shop and KetMoRee Thai Restaurant & Bar.
B & L Bike Shop, at 608 Third St., closed its door