Published: May 01, 2008 10:05 am            

Jeffersonville coffee shop to close

DBL Shotz had been in business for five years

DBL Shotz, a Jeffersonville coffee shop, will close its doors on Friday after five years in business.

Owner Darin Makepeace said the closure is a result of higher gas and food prices, which has caused many of its former customers to have less disposable income.

“It’s really economics,” he said. “We were breaking even, then when gas started going up, our sales started going down.”

The coffee shop has been in business along Spring Street near Clark Memorial Hospital for the last four years. Prior to that, it was located in Green Tree Mall.

Makepeace said he’s known the store was going to close for about two months, as the business was running in the red. Raising prices on the specialty coffee drinks sold there was not a viable option.

He began cutting back the store’s operating hours — closing at about 1 p.m. — around that time in order to save money on staffing. At one point the store had four employees, it currently has just one.

“We tried to do all we could to ride this out,” Makepeace said.

        

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