Rogue closing up in Newport

That is unfortunate. It’s a very tough environment for the food and beverage industries right now.
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Evan B said:
Well they didn't pay rent or taxes either.
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That certainly doesn’t help, but a lot of long established places have closed unfortunately in recent years. One of my favorite breakfast places is now a yoga studio. A favorite dinner spot was torn down and will soon be apartments.
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Loved that place. First time there remember walking on planks over spilled or overflowing wort and the strong smell of malt and hops. Food was really good and our young son got his meal in a turned over frisbee that we played with the next day at Rockaway Beach. Some impressive ales too but some weird one too 😂
 
They did have a bit of a reputation for treating employees very poorly. Here's a legendary job posting that went viral a few years ago that was pretty transparent about that 😂

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Restaurants, bars, and breweries have had a very hard time ever since the pandemic. Rising food and mandated minimum wage increases, supply chain issues, reduced traffic, reduced alcoholic intake, employment retention issues, are playing havoc and chaos on those industries.

My favorite local brewery, Mac 'n Jacks, is closing its Redmond location and moving to Bremerton before year-end.
 
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Breweries in general have a pretty bleak future. Anyone born after about the mid 80s has no interest in beer or wine. If they drink alcohol at all, it's hard seltzer.

I'm all for less alcohol consumption, but I'll be sad to be seeing so many good craft breweries shutting down. Oregon has lost like 75 in the past year last I saw.
 
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Bend had a lot of great breweries. How are they doing?
 
Evan B said:
Breweries in general have a pretty bleak future. Anyone born after about the mid 80s has no interest in beer or wine. I'd they drink alcohol at all, it's hard seltzer.

I'm all for less alcohol consumption, but I'll be sad to be seeing so many good craft breweries shutting down. Oregon has lost like 75 in the past year last I saw.
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I'd say more like the mid 90s honestly in my experience. But that may be splitting hairs at this point.

I worked at a homebrew supply store for a little over a decade, owned it for 5 years before selling. The change in that time period was staggering. There's really only so much you can do when the interest in alcohol evaporates. I did see an increased interest in mead which was interesting, but beer and wine interest plummeted. It was a fast drop. 10-20% a year decrease in sales, save for 2020 with COVID which gave the industry some false hope.

There have always been too many breweries in my opinion. Too many BAD breweries. Pumping out straight garbage. At its peak you could somehow get away with selling some infected chlorine tasting beer because... "gotta support the new local brewery". It sucks to see some good breweries get caught up in this downturn. The good breweries that are still hanging in there do 2 things well. Good beer and better marketing. Some bad breweries will stick around because of good marketing but I think that will only last so long.
 
I’m not sure many have followed my path but in high school and college I drank the cheap beer. Get a job and got married and still drink the cheap beer for a while. Then you have a bit more money and start drinking these craft ales and yum yum yum !!!! So this continues for a while. I mean being on vacation and have an Obsidian stout or two on draft (even nitro)
with an Ecola Creek pizza is such a treat… or a Lake Oswego grill dinner with a boneyard IPA …Yum yum 😀.

(Never got into hard alcohol or the drinks associated with them).

So many tasty ales out there. But one day you find the seltzer water with an ounce or two grapefruit juice over a few cubes of ice is the best drink and things change. Still enjoy a craft ale or two but many evenings it’s seltzer with real grapefruit or orange juice both from coming from Trader Joe’s currently. Their grapefruit and orange juice are top notch.
 
Stonedfish said:
That certainly doesn’t help, but a lot of long established places have closed unfortunately in recent years. One of my favorite breakfast places is now a yoga studio. A favorite dinner spot was torn down and will soon be apartments.
SF
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Most of the places out here are closed at least a couple days a week at the least, and the nicer places have the 4-8 dinner hour service type thing only, no lunch One longtime spot is frankly barely open, with limited dinner days, lunch stopping at 2, and to be honest it might not make it.
I try and hit the spots I like, just to help keep them open, but it's expensive these days.

The food trucks do ok, what with their lower overhead costs.
 
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