STOWE, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) - The Skinny Pancake's Stowe location opened in 2020, more than a decade after the breakfast chain's first store in Burlington. Over the weekend, the restaurant announced it would be closing the location and exploring next steps.
In a statement on their website, the restaurant's CEO Benjy Adler said that the closure came after nearly a year of struggling with understaffing.
"We have been patching together a team for far too long now, with a ‘help wanted’ ad up non-stop through winter, mud, summer, foliage and now stick season."
Adler specifically called out a lack of affordable housing as an underlying cause for the restaurant's issues. "With locations in 4 counties across the State, my experience is that this problem is worse in Stowe than anywhere else."
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