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Posted on 06/12/2026 6:35:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
‘The end of an era’: Salt Lake City vegan coffee shop, once a restaurant, to remain closed
When Mark of the Beastro, a vegan coffee shop in downtown Salt Lake City, shut down in October, patrons held out hope that the business would return.
This week, owner Andrew Earley said that the cafe won’t be coming back.
“We made the decision that it was time to say goodbye to [Mark of the Beastro],” Earley said in an Instagram video he posted Tuesday.
In the video, Earley said the cafe at 666 S. State St. — once a plant-based restaurant — had been closed in October by the Salt Lake County Health Department because it had developed a mice problem.
“It’s an old building in the middle of downtown,” Earley said.
After he had the mice taken care of, Earley got the all-clear from the health department to reopen. But that didn’t happen.
The past year, Mark of the Beastro had been “really struggling after making the switch from full-service restaurant to a coffee shop,” Earley said in the video. So, around the end of the year, they decided to stay closed, and then a few months later, when it came time to renew their business license, they decided not to.
“It just wasn’t really working,” Earley said in the video.
The idea to switch from a restaurant to a cafe was so Mark of the Beastro could run under a smaller staff, and sell pre-made food items, Earley told The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday. “But it really never caught on,” he said.
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Mice are vegans but mice are not vegan.
Or a rat terrier.
But those animals are not vegans.
The author misspelled error as era.
I love meat but am dairy free…so still appreciate vegan finds esp. pastries.
“James Talarico said he is going to make the whole state vegan when he gets elected.”
Texas is full of people who direct bloodlines are from Comanche my mothers mothers band name literally translates to “eaters of the liver” yeah cannibals. We will eat commies before going vegan and that is a promise not a threat. As it’s on my bucket list to eat human meat. Actually I intend to eat every edible animal protein on this plant thus forever being the apex or apex predators. Germany has a restaurant where you can eat human meat it’s donated I just haven’t made it to that part of Germany yet.
As it’s on my bucket list to eat human meat.
Okay, that's disturbing. You do know Jakob-Creutzfeldt is a real thing?
(No spicy meatballs, please.)
You will become a wendigo.
Virgin vegans are scary.
I think I see the problem. In my worldly experience a coffee shop is a full service restaurant. It is not a Starbucks with booths.
Your IQ score will be made available to you in due time.
Earley said he had to decide between running Mark of the Beastro or running AAMP and The Beehive, and “the nonprofit was, I think, a bigger priority.”
The Beehive opened in 2016 and hosts a monthly battle of the bands and a weekly open-mic night, as well as burlesque shows, drag events, weekly improv classes, slam poetry, yoga classes, monthly drawing classes, figure drawing sessions and other events.
Last year, The Beehive asked the community for help with rent, utilities and other bills during the slow summer season after its landlords alluded that the venue could be in danger
Many vegans try to maintain a principled stand against eating animals as food, or even “stealing” milk and eggs from animals for food. And yet, you can get rid of a mouse problem? How do you so that without willfully killing mice?
I’m guessing they would say releasing sterilized mice?
Must have been a slow news day in St. Louis.
Does that all mean that running a non-profit is more lucrative than running a for-profit business? Hmmmmmm......
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