So true. There’s a local dinery near me that has been super popular for two decades now. No sign of slowing down but as ownership changes (even within the same family), it gets harder and harder to survive.
That can really kill a restaurant - the generational change. One of the ones that I liked died because it was owned by two brothers who had a dispute. The one went off and founded his own restarant that went nowhere. The brother who stayed with the original restaurant brought his kids in to help and gradually pulled back. The kids “modernized” the menu (including upping prices). It went downhill and people stopped going.