If you know someone who owns a pizza shop or place that orders from Sysco, they'd probably be happy to resell you a case for some cash they could pocket.

To add, the variation in flavor among places is more likely due to the last time they filtered or changed their fryer oil than different mozzarella sticks.

They taste the same because in all likelihood they are exactly the same frozen mozzarella stick from Sysco or whoever else they order from that has the same mozzarella stick under a different private label name. The biggest difference you will find will be battered vs breaded.

Yeah, they most likely left a second package on the scale while they weighed a few and were too lazy to notice or fix it

I was mostly kidding about using visual inspection of packages to say that a scale that has a weights and measures seal is inaccurate, but that doesn't translate well in text. I am very familiar with scales, markets, and the weights and measures department.

Did you bring your own scale to check the weights or are you just guessing that they were a pound more?

Best way to make a small fortune in the restaurant business is to start with a large one.

The original sir Morgan's cove is a different project a little further down green away from Kelley square. The table talk pies one is to the left of smokestack as your facing it. One of the reasons I'm guessing smokestack won't be a restaurant in the future is because the parking lot to the left of their building belonged to table talk and was being taken from their use as part of the new development next to the ball field.

Building and business have both been for sale for the better part of a year anyway. If the business is closing and not being taken over by new owners, they probably found a buyer for just the building.

Editing just to add: most likely buyer is the table talk pies development that is happening right next door to smokestack. I would expect this building to get knocked down and absorbed into that project

Just to add, the workers comp premium for kitchen employees is stupidly low, like less than 1% of wages paid. They may have cheaped out on delivery drivers or classified employees incorrectly, since the rates for that are like 7% if memory serves and are supposed to be paid on wages and tips.

They most likely had workers comp insurance as you need to show a certificate to the city or town you operate in, in order to receive and maintain your common victualler license. Grafton is not the kind of town that will let you fuck around in this either.
The department of industrial accidents will also do stings and issue stop work orders ( which means in reality daily fine to stay open until you get coverage). They have guys that spend the entire day finding places that have their coverage lapsed or don't have it. They'll bust in the door with badges out like they're cops. You pay $250 for the day, call an insurance company and get a certificate emailed to you and you're good.
Although it's possible they didn't have coverage at all, I would bet this had to do with paying employees off the books, probably with one of them getting hurt and filling a claim. With no insurance paid and no wages to show, you've got a problem.

Maybe 10 years back they had a bigger bear sculpture that got stolen out of their front yard overnight. I remember living in the neighborhood at the time and seeing it on the news. Must have been a determined thief because I would imagine a 6 foot tall wooden bear weighs a lot and would be hard to hide and/ or resell. Some people say they've been sitting outside and glaring at people ever since.

"Vystar, a publicly traded company, acquired a majority interest in the company in 2019. Steven Rotman is CEO of Vystar. He previously said that Rotmans ended 2021 at around $30 million in sales, two to three million less than prior to the pandemic. ". From the article that was posted. He's not a retiree, he's the majority shareholder of vystar, which owns rotmans. You are exactly what my first comment was referring to, somebody that looks at the parking lot once a week and thinks they know what's going on over there. Vystar s financials are public and you can see the 30 million on their annual financial statement. It's a holding company he created to sell air purifiers, latex mattresses, condoms and to operate rotmans. This article also pretty clearly says they turned showroom into warehouse with the renovation to have more things in stock at the time of purchase to ship faster

For the record, I think rotmans sucks, but they've been stacking cash for the better part of 100 years. If they are closing, it's probably because they feel like it.

Articles like this are good for context. It's funny to see people on Reddit (and in real life) laughing at this guy for going out of business because they didn't like a salesperson or a couch was expensive thinking he can't pay his bills and they've mismanaged themselves into oblivion. Meanwhile in the article he just nonchalantly throws out "yeah we're doing $30 million a year and I don't feel like doing this really because I've got other stuff going on that's less stressful." And for people that didn't notice the renovation, it's because it was to their warehouse to increase in stock furniture supply

I spent about $700 including radon test. Used Rj inspections out of methuen. They were very thorough.