Ric's Cafe, the longtime modestly upscale eatery in River Center, is out of business after the landlord locked the doors and seized the property.
Don Baker of Baker-Larsen, which owns the foothills shopping center, said Ric's owner Jack Ahern was in arrears on the rent.
In a recorded message on the business's phone, Ahern said he would continue catering but was closing Ric's "due to construction" at River Center. The plaza has been a buzz of construction for the past six months with a new Whole Foods market, a grocery store that replaces the long-gone markets that once anchored the plaza.
Ric's had been open at River Center since the late 1990s. Ahern had owned it the past 11 years.
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