Customers Raise More Than $50K To Keep Deluxe Town Diner Open In Watertown

WATERTOWN, MA — It’s been on Mount Auburn Street in Watertown since 1947. It’s even on the national register of historic buildings. But now, a diner which customers know better for its Rhode Island Johnny Cakes and Shakshuka, is getting creative to save itself.

“Diners are from another generation,” says longtime regular Christine Brenner. The college professor is now part of a unique effort to bail the “Deluxe Town Diner” out of a $100,000 hole. “It tells me that this diner has an emotional place in people’s lives,” she says.

Like so many restaurants, this eatery lost 90 percent of its customers when the pandemic hit, and has regained barely half amid all the restrictions..

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