More details on the closing of Perkins Restaurant & Bakery in West Bend

Jan. 12, 2018 – West Bend, WI – There’s a bit more information coming out now about the Perkins Restaurant & Bakery closing this week in West Bend.

Staff said it was extremely surprised by the news and they didn’t know. There was a note on the door of the business Monday, Jan. 8 notifying customers the location, 2400 W. Washington St., was to close “permanently!!!!!”

Neighbors are starting to ask about gift cards. Those can be used at other Perkins outlets including those in Milwaukee on Port Washington Road and in West Allis.

Now just in three short days since the news broke there is some scuttlebutt about other interested parties moving into the location.

Perkins, which was run by franchise owner Pat Correll with CBT, simply leased the space.

The property on W. Washington Street is owned by Mizpah Beach Properties LP out of San Diego, California.  The property was purchased Aug. 1, 2006 for $1,807,024.

On a side note: Correll said corporate Perkins recently posted a remodel mandate that had to be completed by December 2018.

“That means franchisees like myself have to remodel all of our stores to their specifications by 2018 and that probably contributed to our decision at this time that it was not economically feasible at that location to move forward,” Correll said.

CBT leased the location since Rocky Rococo closed in late 1990. “I’ve been in there about 28 years as a Perkins,” Correll said.

CBT has eight other Perkins locations in the Greater Milwaukee area. “Those locations will be in the process of remodeling however the West Bend location did not make the cut,” he said.

On a history note: Perkins restaurant was built in 1990 and prior to that, according to the city assessor’s office, the location used to be home to Pizza Slices Inc., which did business as Rocky Rococo in May 1985.

In June 1988 Pizza Slices Inc. sold to RAL West Bend Inc. and it sold again in 1991 to Julia E. Schloemer.