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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Peet's cafes in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Los Altos to close Nov. 24
Uploaded: Nov 18, 2019
Three local Peet's Coffee & Tea locations in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Los Altos will close this weekend.
The cafes at 436 University Ave. in downtown Palo Alto, 515 El Camino Real in Menlo Park (at the same shopping center as Safeway) and 4598 El Camino Real in Los Altos will close this Sunday, Nov. 24, the company confirmed.
A longtime downtown Palo Alto location of Peet's will close this weekend. Photo by Elena Kadvany.
Elizabeth Ricardo, senior public relations manager for the Bay Area-born coffee chain, said that the closures are "important for effectively managing our resources and for accelerating our business.
"As with any retail business, Peet's Coffee must keep pace with changing markets to enable healthy growth," she wrote in an email.
She did not answer a question about whether there is anything particular to the local market that is spurring these closures.
Ricardo said the company is working with employees on a one-on-one basis to help them find work at other Peet's locations.
The downtown Palo Alto Peet's has been open since at least 2007 and the Menlo Park outpost, 2009.
Meanwhile, the coffee company has or is currently renovating two nearby Peet's — one at 153 Homer Ave. in Palo Alto (which is reopening on Nov. 22) and the second-ever Peet’s location at 899 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park. The latter opened in 1971, following the first location in Berkeley in 1966.
In 2012, Peet's was sold to a private German holding company for nearly $1 billion.
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