Maxime’s restaurant, set to close soon, ‘cannot keep up with the demand’

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A St. Vital restaurant that recently announced it will close next month after 41 years says it can’t keep up with the demand for reservations.

Maxime’s Restaurant and Lounge will not be taking new bookings until further notice.

“We must determine, day by day, how we will continue our operations to best serve our guests and remaining employees,” the restaurant said in a Facebook post Thursday.

The restaurant posted on Oct. 2 that the owners have decided to retire and have sold the land and building at 1131 St. Mary’s Rd. The Bekios family said last week it is planning to close the restaurant in the third week of November.

On Thursday morning, the restaurant said “the response from the Winnipeg community has been overwhelming” since the pending closure was announced.

“We cannot keep up with the demand and the reservation requests at this time. As long as we have employees in good health, we will continue to operate for the next six weeks. However, we may have to reduce our business hours and capacity in order to support our staff. They have been working non-stop day and night since last week,” a Facebook post stated.

The post said the restaurant would be closed all day Thursday and that there will be dinner service only this Saturday.

“Our staff is depleted, and we must support them. We have also continually run out of supplies and prep. We sincerely apologize for the last-minute cancellations,” the post stated.

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