Buck’s A&W Swamped with Customers, Well-wishers
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The rally planned Saturday for Buck’s A&W, which faces bankruptcy and will close on Sunday, appears to have started already.
According to Louise Ness, the aunt of owner Rick Gehring, the restaurant was swamped yesterday with people coming in for a last taste of Buck’s curley fries, root beer floats and memories. Customers came to buy food and extend their support to the family, which faces legal costs stemming from a 2007 lawsuit that are forcing the closure.
Ness, 81, who retired in 2002, still helps out in the kitchen as needed.
“People want to eat before it closes,” she said. “We were running out of everything. … I stood in front of that fire all day dishing up fries and onion rings.”
Ness said there was also a big run on A&W T-shirts, mugs and other memorabilia.
“They figure here’s 50 years of history that won’t be available again,” she said.”It just makes you realize the importance of the whole establishment to the community. Nobody knows until it’s gone how much they’re going to miss it. It’s heartrending is what it is.”
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