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Minneapolis restaurant that offered free meals to protest ICE raids announces closure
Modern Times Café, a Minneapolis restaurant that attempted to eliminate prices, has announced it will be closing for good by the end of the year.
“For the last six years, I’ve been trying to prove that Modern Times can continue to exist,” owner Dylan Alverson wrote on social media Saturday. “I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is.”
He added that he plans to spend the next two months celebrating the 16-year-old business and discussing ways for a business like his to continue.
“The only way for places like Modern Times to exist in the future is to actively challenge the reasons why it can no longer exist,” Alverson wrote.
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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Modern Times Café once served free food to the community as federal immigration agents flooded Minneapolis. Now, the restaurant is closing by the end of the year.
Modern Times Café owner, Dylan Alverson, posted on the restaurant's Facebook page that after nearly 16 years of operations, they are closing by the end of the year.
"For the last 6 years, I’ve been trying to prove that Modern Times can continue to exist. I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is. Because of this, we have made the choice to close at the end of the year. This has been an incredibly difficult decision and one that did not come lightly. I announce this decision now, with the hope that we can spend the next two plus months celebrating the nearly 16 years that Modern Times has stood for creativity over cost, kindness over profit, and uncompromising values as a business in this country," Alverson said in part on Facebook.
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Modern Times Cafe closing at end of year after providing 30,000 free meals in wake of ICE surge
A south Minneapolis staple that made headlines after offering free meals in response to Operation Metro Surge will be closing its doors.
Modern Times Cafe will close at the end of the year in what the owner says is an "incredibly difficult decision."
"I announce this decision now, with the hope that we can spend the next two plus months celebrating the nearly 16 years that Modern Times has stood for creativity over cost, kindness over profit, and uncompromising values as a business in this country," owner Dylan Alverson said.
The cafe rebranded as Post Modern Times and began to serve free meals in January after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis.
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