After 23 years of serving Guyana with “genuine creole food”, owner of the Jerries Restaurant and Bar, Jerry Bacchus, yesterday confirmed the closing of the franchise.
In an interview with Stabroek News, Bacchus said that within the next three months he will be closing all four of the restaurants that are left in Jerries’ franchise. The four restaurants, ‘All night long’, at Waterloo Street, ‘Runway’, at Ogle, ‘Tight n Sweet’, at Robb Street, and ‘Auntie Rosie’, located in the Courts building on Main Street, collectively with 45 staff, will close their doors in the next three months. Bacchus said the restaurants will shut in a phased manner with the last one being the Waterloo Street headquarters branch.
While some people have been linking the imminent closing of the franchise to the change in government, Bacchus told Stabroek News that such claims are “absolutely false”.
“After 23 years it’s hard to bow out of a business like that. It’s like my baby that I have taken care of for 23 years,” Bacchus said, pointing out that factors such as the current state of the economy is one of the main reasons why he made such a bold decision to end his 23-year love affair with his prized business.
“I would be a clown to close at 2AM when everyone else is opened,” Bacchus stated, though he pointed out that the implementation of the prohibition of the sale of alcohol beyond 2AM does not affect his decision. He said that while some may think otherwise, he is in