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Restaurant staple in Union County announces plan to close its doors
LEWISBURG, UNION COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — After almost 50 years of service, Country Cupboard in Lewisburg will soon be closed for good. Country Cupboard has been a staple in Lewisburg for almost 49 yea…
I live in Wmspt. I usually see a great number of folks wearing PSU gear there. It is especially busy on the PSU game days.
Cute, one of the opportunities being served "bland" food, is you have the option of adding any food enhancement you prefer just by asking the waitresses.
Having grown up and still living within 30 minutes of Country Cupboard, the options of enhancements include salt, pepper and ketchup.
I'm 74 and always felt like a youngster in the restaurant.
My sister is really bummed about that news. We were talking, it's a restaurant that our parents and we older adults liked but not so much the kids of today. Kids and young adults today want to go to Buffalo Wild Wings or some other chain restaurant. Hopefully Fry's survives but they've cut back on hours and days that they are open.
When is PennDot going to finish that bypass across the river? They poured the east side access years ago, but not much progress has been made since.
It's supposed to be by summer I believe. Which will cut down on a ton of traffic from Lewisburg all the way to Williamsport
Went there today and the place was packed. Our waitress said their biggest issue is finding people to work. Very sad state this country is in today.
My parents went yesterday. Looking for deals in the store.
Honestly don't know how many of the old time restaurants and "haunts" survive in the pennsyltucky region of the state. Like you said the youth of today don't want to go to them and the old farts won't be around forever. As of 2020 PA had the 5th total most folks over the age of 65 in the country (9th if you adjust for percentage of population) and if current trends continue I can see more of these kinds of places - and small mountain towns themselves - closing up shop for good.
Well, no one is willing to work anymore, so you can't find employees. And people are afraid to go out. My wife and I were coming across the turnpike a week ago, and stopped in new Stanton, our normal stop, to get something to eat and use the facilities. Couldn't find an open bathroom anywhere. So we stopped for gas, and you couldn't use the bathroom at the gas station! We have come a long way in a year!
It's not that people don't want to work. When Covid hit, these people found other jobs because they couldn't afford to work at a restaurant anymore. Most of them found better, higher paying jobs and now they aren't going back.
