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Originally Posted by margaretmattson
We went to Sunny Pint several times. The tavern depended on Villagers for success. I do not know the reason they closed, but my hunch is they grew tired of the hard work.
Maybe, both former owners walked away with a sweet deal and $$$$ in their pockets. Who knows? Businesses close for their own reason. The reason is not always failure.
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Sunny Pint closed down because the owners expanded to an Ocala location and then proceeded to lose large sums of money on that failed restaurant as they even admitted publicly that they didn't correctly understand the Ocala market. The Wildwood location also went downhill during this phase as one of the owners was tied up running the Ocala location, and the staff was spread thin over the two locations.
Even though the food was quite good, the owners also seemed to run the restaurant very inconsistently. The hours were quite sporadic and it felt like they ran it more as a hobby with the the restaurant closing at 8pm even on Friday and Saturday. Their concept of not employing waitstaff was also something that most people were not big fans of. Instead of having bartenders waiting for people to come to them, waitstaff would've made things a much better experience and likely more profitable as well.