News Net Nebraska – by Wade Hilligoss:
Pizza addicts all across the University of Nebraska-Lincoln went into withdrawal in January when the Sbarro in the student union mysteriously stopped tossing dough, shut down its ovens and locked up its registers. Now, seven weeks later, the restaurant is back.
The local franchisee who ran the Sbarro outlet closed it Jan. 11, telling officials at the city union “we’re done.” UNL city union director Charlie Francis said the operator, Greg Warner, also closed an outlet in Grand Island.
But, encouraged by the long lines and good sales results the outlet generated, executives at Sbarro’s corporate office in Melville, N.Y., reopened the campus eatery seven weeks later, on March 1. Campus officials, pleased at the reopening, had been stunned by the shutdown.
“After we got back from winter break, they weren’t open on that Monday but we didn’t think much of it,” Francis said. “Then we received a call from Warner that Wednesday saying he was just deciding to close down.” Carry on reading…
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