Retiring owner of beloved Ann Arbor breakfast spot reflects on business success

Breakfast and lunch spot Afternoon Delight has been a fixture in downtown Ann Arbor since 1978, and owner Joanne Williams is hoping someone will carry on the restaurant’s legacy when she retires later this year.

Williams has worked at the restaurant since 1979, when she was in high school.

“We’ve been here so long. People know us,” Williams says. “We get generations visiting us. People go to college here, their kids go to college here, and then their kids’ kids come here. … It’s like a family. Everyone knows everyone. We have regulars and see the same faces over and over.”…

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