"In dog years we're 230-something...in restaurant years that's like a million."
Restaurant years are funny things.
Like animal years, they tend to pile up quickly. Two years can feel like 20. Five can feel like a lifetime.
“In dog years we’re 230-something,” said Matt Asen, who opened The Timbers Restaurant on Sanibel in 1978, “in restaurant years that’s like a million.”
According to therestaurantbrokers.com, the average restaurant’s life span is five years with up to 90 percent of independently owned restaurants closing in year one. If that’s the case, then Southwest Florida’s restaurant veterans, places such as the 60-year-old Farmers Market and 50-year-old Cracker Box, represent the .01 percent; age-old, family-run eateries that credit consistency and simple, delicious food for their longevity.
Read more at the Fort Myers News-Press.