The Corner serves as a cornerstone of popular activity for students and visitors in Charlottesville, offering a wide range of local businesses like The Virginian, Bodo’s Bagels and Trinity on the Corner that regularly attract students. However, as the price of owning small businesses and concerns about inflation in recent years increase, business owners on the Corner find themselves having to raise prices for customers, who are primarily students.
Andy McClure, owner of The Virginian and a Class of 2001 alumnus, said in a statement to The Cavalier Daily that the last five years have placed a strain on the restaurant business due to significant expense increases.
“The restaurant business has been and always will be tremendously challenging. Every single thing that we buy has become dramatically more expensive over the past five years,” McClure said…