{"id":5949,"date":"2015-10-07T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2015-10-07T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:10:57","slug":"toby-keiths-remarkably-stayed-in-business-for-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=5949","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith\u2019s Remarkably Stayed in Business for Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/toby-keiths-closing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/toby-keiths-closing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"toby keith&#039;s closing\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5950\" \/><\/a>Last month, Toby Keith\u2019s I Love This Bar &#038; Grill closed its Stapleton location, stunning residents.  \u201cThat place was still open?\u201d exclaimed Stapleton resident Kathy Rundall.  \u201cI think I went there once four years ago, but assumed it was out of business.  Who was going there?\u201d  Resident Shawn McCall was equally surprised.  \u201cI don\u2019t think I knew of anyone who ever went there.  They just got shut down?  That\u2019s a heck of a run.  Really, people were going to that bar enough to keep it open for four years?  Just incredible.\u201d\n<!--more-->\nThe \u201crestaurant\u201d and bar <a href=\"http:\/\/frontporchstapleton.com\/article\/toby-keiths-closes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closed its doors<\/a> September 14th due to \u201can almost unbelievable lack of business,\u201d according to bar manager Timothy Vogel.  \u201cWe had this huge 22,000 square foot space,\u201d said Vogel.  \u201cDance floor, place for live music, plenty of seating, big screen TVs, everything.  We had it all.\u201d  Except, of course, the customers.  \u201cThe food was below average for bar food, and the wait staff was typical of Northfield wait staffs, well below average,\u201d said one-time Keith\u2019s customer Zach Glynn.  \u201cAre you sure that didn\u2019t close in September 2013?  I\u2019m just having a hard time believing they stayed open that long.\u201d  The giant empty space will certainly be hard to fill for Northfield Mall management.  \u201cWe have seen this coming for a long time,\u201d said Director of Leasing at Northfield Mall Tom Madison.  \u201cI can\u2019t believe they hung on that long.  I mean, we had places lined up, ready for them to bow out, but somehow, they kept it together.  So, we already have some prospects who are interested.\u201d\nMadison says they don\u2019t have any immediate lessors, but parties interested include a warehousing company, a laser tag event company, as well as a trampoline park.  \u201cWe are confident we will put yet another ringer in the Northfield mall,\u201d said Madison.  \u201cBut this time, customers will actually go there.\u201d\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-114","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}