"In this particular tenant's closure, it's a painful realization of the longer lasting impacts of COVID on retail," Ellis said. He described the closure as a "huge loss" for the shopping center.
Not having to pay rent basically didn't close the gap enough for them to justify continuing the operation," Ellis said. "We were informed that that just wouldn't solve the problem for them. He said they were not currently paying rent on the 5,300-square-foot space and were in discussions to extend rent abatement.
Jim Ellis of Ellis Partners, which owns Town & Country, said Bacchus Management communicated to him that the cost of doing business in Palo Alto - including utility rates, minimum wage and labor requirements - compounded by the shutdown and ongoing lack of indoor dining made it impossible for the full-service restaurant to stay open. Mayfield later offered its own menu for takeout and delivery and reopened for outdoor dining in June.Ī closure sign posted outside the bakery side of Mayfield. Mayfield temporarily closed after the Bay Area's shelter-in-place order took effect but soon became a pickup location for Bacchus Management's "family meals" program, ready-to-eat takeout meals whose proceeds went to support the restaurant group's employees. The restaurant was known for both its farm-to-table fare and the bakery's fresh-baked bread, pastries and desserts. On Tuesday afternoon, Mayfield's dining room sat empty while a man filled a moving truck with carts of baking trays and other items from the next-door bakery.īacchus Management Group, which also owns The Village Pub and The Village Bakery in Woodside and Selby's in Redwood City, opened Mayfield in 2009.
Signs announcing the closure appeared in the restaurant's windows this week. The shuttered Mayfield Bakery & Cafe in Palo Alto on Tuesday, July 28. "I would like to share a heartfelt thank you to all of our team members, as well as our loyal guests, for 11 wonderful years."
"Like many restaurants throughout the area and across the country, the impact of the COVID-19 virus and the subsequent shelter-in-place orders have reduced revenues to an unsustainable level," Tim Stannard, founding partner of Bacchus Management Group, which owns Mayfield, said in a statement. The owners of Mayfield Bakery & Cafe in Palo Alto, unable to sustain the business due to the coronavirus shutdown, have closed the Town & Country Village restaurant for good.