DANBURY — A relatives-owned cafe that obtained its start off providing two very hot puppies and a cup of espresso for 25 cents and became one of the city’s famous eateries is for sale so the homeowners can “enjoy life a very little.”
“In this business enterprise, you have to place 100 % into it and we often set 100 p.c into it,” reported Peter Koukos, whose grandfather and grand uncle began JK’s Primary Texas Hot Weiners on White Road in 1924. “We are not retiring since we are burned out — the business enterprise is going potent, but it is time to take pleasure in lifetime a minimal.”
Koukos, 62, is referring to a household-run business enterprise which survived the Good Despair, Environment War II, the flood of 1955 and the coronavirus pandemic by serving quintessential relatives fare at reasonable prices. The menu at JK’s cafe, which has been on South Road for 48 many years, features cheeseburgers, club sandwiches and grinders — all for under $12.
“The pandemic didn’t have an affect on us at all,” claimed Koukos shortly in advance of the lunch rush on Tuesday, referring to the COVID-19 epidemic that shut down scores of dining establishments throughout Connecticut and the country through its two-year scourge. “We just altered the way we did enterprise.”
Koukos and his older brother George hope the new entrepreneurs decide on up exactly where the family tradition has remaining off — preferring excellent in excess of anything else.
A true estate listing for the restaurant suggests as considerably.
“Many organizations, especially in the course of pandemic times, did not make it this specific enterprise thrived all over the shut down and nonetheless proceeds to increase and could expand to even far more,” explained a listing by Coldwell Banker Realty. “The hours, menu, catering, off web-site specific occasions, in house special gatherings, takeout, shipping and delivery, foods truck, and several much more tips could improve this business enterprise and even turn out to be a franchise.”
To get about the small business and the restaurant at 126 South St. will charge you $2.2 million, according to the listing.
“For nearly 100 decades, this place has been a brand and a staple in town, and you could be the one particular to capitalize off of its legacy and make it your very own,” the listing reads. “The household who owns this would like practically nothing more than (to have) able and willing persons to go off the decades of perseverance … with the exact same desire.”
Kouskos mentioned he has been telling shoppers who have read the information that the household has just about every intention of offering to a new owner with equivalent values.
“They say, ‘Oh no, you just cannot do that,’ and I say ‘JK’s will be the identical,’” Koukos claimed. “That is our intention. The new owners will do that if they’re clever. There is no rationale to reinvent the wheel.”
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