Three years after COVID-19 led to economic shutdowns, the owner of Black Sheep Restaurant in Five Points says the restaurant’s upcoming closing is directly related to the economic changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

“The restaurant business ecosystem was extremely tough before COVID. And now it is unbelievably hard,” owner Jonathan Insetta said Thursday.

“It never got back to the sales that we needed to be sustainable.”

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