The dining room downstairs is empty and dim, chairs still up on half the tables. Denise has a coffee for you already poured when you sit down, which feels like either a kindness or a warning.
DDenise · General manager
So. Season's basically done. I want to talk about what's next.
You think about the allergy table in August, the slow Tuesdays in October, whatever Tobias told you about that mental list. None of it tells you what she's about to say.
DDenise · General manager
We're keeping the restaurant open weekends only through winter. Skeleton crew — basically me, Tobias, and one server rotating.
She lets that sit for a second.
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