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Manager declines comment on downtown Dayton cafe’s abrupt closing
Swisher’s Cafe, a popular lunch spot in the lower level of the PNC Bank building at 6 N. Main St. in downtown Dayton, has closed, according to a notice on the cafe and catering firm’s web site.
The cafe “is not expected to reopen anytime soon,” according to a voicemail greeting that customers encounter when calling the restaurant’s phone number.
The owners of Swisher’s could not be reached Monday afternoon, but the closing surprised and saddened long-time customers of the cafe such as Gwen Owen, community relations assistant at the Dayton Metro Library, who noted that the cafe’s web site has the monthly menu posted through the end of May.
“It always seemed crowded,” Owen said. “They were always running out of lasagna before I could get there.”
Willaroo LLP has managed Swisher’s since January 2011 under an agreement with Swisher’s owners, and the food service operations were overseen by Dave Sauer, former manager of Bella Vino wine bar and a former sales manager at Oceanwide Seafood. In an email Tuesday morning, Sauer declined to comment on the factors that led to the cafe’s closing and on the number of employees affected by the closing.
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