Lou's Restaurant

Lou's Restaurant Restaurant
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Permanently closed.
11/17/2021

Dee’s Sugar Shack in Lockport will be open on Thanksgiving from 8 am to 1 pm (breakfast only) and, if you are lucky, you just may see Donna there. 😊🦃 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

We are done! It was a great Weekend…we saw so many of our friends. Specials thanks to all of you who brought cakes, cook...
10/17/2021

We are done! It was a great Weekend…we saw so many of our friends. Specials thanks to all of you who brought cakes, cookies, flowers, lottery tickets, gift certificates and a special sign by Paisley and Emmy. We appreciate you all. Here are some of our last pictures.

10/15/2021

We’ve come to the end of the road…. Saturday and Sunday are our last days. Our Weekend Specials include Polish Sausage & Onion Omelet and Italian Sausage Scrambler on Saturday; Chicken Fajita Omelet and Italian Sausage Scrambler on Sunday.
It has been our pleasure to serve the people of the Tonawandas for the past 25 years. Thank you to all of our loyal customers, we wouldn’t have lasted without you. We will miss you all.

10/08/2021

Looks Ike it’s going to be a Summer-like Weekend. Nice time to get out and try one of our Weekend Specials on this, our second last Weekend. They include Texas Hot Omelet, Southern Scrambler, Gingerbread Pancakes and Bean Soup. Next Weekend, Donna’s former employees, her sisters Dee and Dawn, will be working on Saturday and her cousin, Kayla, will be working on Sunday for the closing. Join us, but expect to wait. 😊

10/02/2021

It’s a pleasant October Weekend. Get out while you can and come check out our Weekend Specials.

09/25/2021

We are still open for three more weeks! Stop in and check out our Weekend Specials.

09/21/2021

It’s not as easy as people think to move a restaurant. So, with a heavy heart, I will be hanging up my spatula on October 17th. I want to thank the Tonawandas for an awesome 25 years. I will miss all of my loyal customers and great employees. I would love to see as many of you as possible before the 17th. Thanks again for the memories.
Donna

09/20/2021

A brief history of Lou's Restaurant....73 Webster Street has housed many different businesses over the years, including a doctor's office, clothing store, auto & home supply store, office supply store, a campaign headquarters, a pizzeria and lastly, in 1972, Louise Heisner opened Lou's. Donna started working at Lou's as a dishwasher at the age of 14 and she continued through all of her school years, and even as she pursued her Business Degree at NCCC. In 1996, Donna and her sister Dee, who had attended BOCES for Culinary Arts, decided to buy Lou's from the Heisner family. In 1997, with the permission of the building owner, they took over 71 Webster Street. They completely remodeled that side to double the size of the restaurant. Donna, Dee and their employees worked hard to serve the best food, with great prices and a friendly atmosphere for the Tonawanda community. Their sister Dawn worked with them for a while too. Donna bought Dee's part of the restaurant in 2008 when Dee decided to open a restaurant of her own in Lockport, Dee's Sugar Shack. Business has been good through the years but now 73 (and 71) Webster Street will no longer be a Small Business. The Tonawandas will lose the Community that was Lou's Restaurant.
Edit..I am the mother of Donna and Dee and I wrote this post. It was not intended as a ‘poor me’ post. I am proud of my girls and the fact that at the ages of 23 and 24 they took the initiative to take out loans and get involved in a business of their own, a business that has a high failure rate and they succeeded in making it work. None of you know the whole story of how and why it is ending this way. My thanks to the many of you who appreciated the community my girls created over the years.

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