CLEVELAND, Ohio – Joel Warger couldn’t put his finger on any one thing that led to the decision to close Midnight Owl Brewing Co.
Rather, it was a lot of factors.
“I honestly could not tell you,” he told cleveland.com. “It feels like it could be a number of things. Legalized marijuana, legalized gambling. It’s real easy to blow 200 dollars on your phone on a bet. I heard that could be what’s eating into it. There definitely seems to be less interest in going out in general – DoorDash, Uber Eats. A lot of people tend to have the food dropped off at their door as opposed to going out. We’re in a recession, the economy’s bad, the food costs are up at the grocery store as much as it is for us. Eggs are more expensive now, and that makes people go out less…