December 13,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood
Ridgewood NJ, it was reported on News 12 that Fish Urban Dining abruptly shut down its Asbury Park location closed in early October.
Fish opened in Asbury Park in 2010 and followed with great fanfare a second location in the summer of 2015 in the Village of Ridgewood in the Citizens bank or Bank of America building depending on how old you are. Both locations are owned by the DeGilio’s City by the Sea Hospitality Group. DeGilio’s City also closed Cibo e Vino in Asbury Park in October as well.
Both restaurants were considered “popular ” and seemed to close abruptly leaving the shut down as a mystery.
Good riddance if it does. Awful place.
The new Ridgewood Performing Arts Center
Let the fundraising begin.
No mega Garage behind this monstrosity .
Talk about parking problems.
Yes they are so “popular” their closing down. How exactly does that work? Who was kind enough for this consideration when in fact the end result is ASS BACKWARDS. I’ll give the Ridgewood location 6 months. Next up…brading station. Thank goodness, my eyebrows look like crap.
Fish had no chance of making it. It was clearly a case of way too much overhead. Profit margins are razor thin in the restaurant business and Fish was a lesson to any would be restaurateur in how not to do it.
Energy Costs alone for heat and summer A/C would make such large former Bank Retaurants uncompetitive.
This is Ridgewood , not Madison Avenue expense account trade,
They counted on having the old council in their back pocket – – if the massive garage had been built rumor is there was a special door designated for Fish. Pride cometh before a fall.