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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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It seems this guy doesn’t have much of a business sense.
Non-profits make money, they just call it something other than “profit.”
i wonder if they served synthetic B12 pills on the side to keep their patrons healthy enough for return visits ...
I was thinking more along the lines of how much this guy pockets with a salary at the NFP, and what happens to those non-taxable profits. Besides getting government grants as a non-profit, instead of having to making an honest profit and paying honest taxes.
¡Órale! holmes!
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