Beverly Hills dining institution shuts down. (Up front).Nibbler's Restaurant, the diner diner, restaurant resembling the railroad dining car that is its source. In the mid-19th cent., the first dining cars that appeared on trains were nothing more than an empty car with a fastened-down table. George M. in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. known for its flannel flannel, large group of napped plain-weave or twill-weave fabrics made of cotton, wool, or man-made fibers. Flannel fabrics vary in closeness or firmness of weave and in degree of napping. cakes and tuna melts and a Westside institution for 45 years, has closed its doors and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The Nov. 1 filing comes after several years of declining business as the restaurant's customer base aged and potential younger customers flocked to trendier restaurants on nearby Restaurant Row and in West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. . It also comes amid a dispute between current and former owners, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. bankruptcy attorney Robert Scott. Current owners Shahab Fatemian and Amir Razmara bought the restaurent from Javid Mansouri last December with hopes of reviving its fortunes, he said. "The current owners saw that the restaurant wasn't making money," he said. "They realized they would have had to put in at least $250,000 to turn it around. Given the current environment, the principals felt they did not want to throw good money after bad money." Scott said the restaurant has been closed since Oct. 30. Signs on the door say it is "closed temporarily for renovations." Scott said the company's assets and liabilities were still being tallied. The owners themselves could not be reached for comment. But Scott said they believed the restaurant would "reopen within 60 to 90 days." Nibbler's was founded in 1956. In the late 1960s, it moved to its current location where it prospered for several years as a '50s-style diner. It became popular with middle-aged customers who grew up with such diners Diners can mean:
By the 1980s, the customer base became older. "They did have an aging, loyal clientele. By its very nature, such a clientele tends to diminish over time," said Janet Lowder, president of Restaurant Management Services. In the mid-1990s, the original family owners sold the restaurant to Mansouri. |
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