More than half a century after it landed in Lakewood, The Ram Restaurant will close after service this Friday, Sept. 26.
The restaurant announced the sudden shutter on Facebook on Saturday. Its parent company, whose headquarters are also in Lakewood, is “endeavoring” to transfer interested staff to sister restaurants, marketing manager Austin Iverson confirmed. Ram currently operates seven restaurants in Western Washington, including on Tacoma’s Ruston Way and in Puyallup, as well as two locations each in Idaho and Oregon.
“Our restaurants do well elsewhere, unfortunately we just do not seem to be right for Lakewood any longer,” Iverson wrote in an email Wednesday morning. “Over the past few years, we have made countless attempts to adapt to the Lakewood market and move the needle that have not, unfortunately, proven fruitful.”…