Marcano's pulls the plug

Concentrating on catering

by Tony McReynolds

posted 10/22/2011

Elisabeth Marcano-Kennedy closed Marcano's Takeout on Packard in August, less than a year after she opened. "It was doing okay but it wasn't picking up the way I was expecting," Marcano-Kennedy says. "And I was getting more into big events like catering." Add to that the fact that she was due to renew her lease, that customers kept asking why she didn't have tables so they could sit down, and that maybe it wasn't the best location--Big Ten Burrito previously languished in the same spot--and she decided to pull the plug. But she says a

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