Peter Pan Restaurant Closes Down Night Shift Because of Customer Problems (Miami: low income, for sale)

[HotandHumid]

I recently went for breakfast at one of my favorite non-corporate locally run restaurants, the Peter Pan, on Oakland Park Boulevard next to the train tracks by Dixie Highway to find that they have closed down what used to be their night shift.

I got there about 530a to find that breakfast wasn't going to be served until after 6am as the cook arrived then.

Knowing that this restaurant has been open for years and years 24 hours a day, I asked if the cook was running late and I was informed by one of the staff that the cook now comes in at 6am and that the restaurant isn't open 24 hours anymore.

Seems that too many problems had started up with customers on the late night shift fighting with each other in the restaurant to the point they were pulling knives on each other, or beating up each other in the parking lot or running out of the restaurant without paying their checks.

I guess one of my friends was correct in saying it's becoming quite rough in the Fort Lauderdale area because of the recent buying spree of properties in drug infested areas of Miami. C

With the popularity of living in the near north area of downtown Miami with several areas on the upswing for the past couple of years with new businesses opening there, a lot of people in Miami want to live where the action is so developers have been going into some of the drug infested neighborhoods on the perimeters of those newly revived areas and buying up houses as tear downs to build more new high rise and townhouse developments on.

With their source of income depleted by low income residents moving out of the area with money in hand from developers who bought their houses to buy or rent in the Fort Lauderdale area, the shadier characters have been moving out also to keep supplying the "needs" of their customers.

Considering that when the drug Flaka appeared on the market, Fort Lauderdale, with a population of about 200,000, had more cases of emergency room admissions and arrests due to that dangerous drug than Chicago had with it's population of around 3 million, Chicago being the city with the most emergency room admissions and arrests for Flaka use after Fort Lauderdale, it seems that the law of supply and demand has worked it's way up from Miami to Fort Lauderdale with one of the results being that the long open 24 hours a day Peter Pan restaurant had to close it's third shift down due to recent increases in customer violence.

There used to be a newpaper out called The Islander in Wilton Manors that had a regular tally sheet of the crimes committed in the area but it closed down. A friend told me that the reason for that was because most of the advertising in this area is paid for mostly by real estate companies and real estate agents since the closing of so many local restaurants in the area like Sublime and The Florida Seafood House that used to advertise in the local magazines and newspapers. He said it's sort of difficult to sell real estate in an area when people pick up local newspapers and read things like vacation homes being broken into and used as drug dens while the owners are out of town for the summer, people running out of the Publix at 5 Points shoplifting steaks and the like and police regular arresting people in the area walking through private properties or found sitting or sleeping on private properties with quantities of drugs on them that the police stated they suspected was meant for sale.

[blueherons]

Flakka was a synthetic over the counter 'designer' drug from China that was never sold on the street. You could buy it behind the counter at 7/11.

It peaked in 2015 or 2016 and has pretty much been wiped out.

No one is buying Flakka in any parking lot.

[Angel Calzadilla]

I ate at Peter Pan restaurant 20 years ago and I didn't like the food quality niether the atmosphere. Lot of weird people as if that was the only place as a magnet for them because I never saw such crew before in 50 miles around. Very scary place.

[harry chickpea]

Originally Posted by Angel Calzadilla

I ate at Peter Pan restaurant 20 years ago and I didn't like the food quality niether the atmosphere. Lot of weird people as if that was the only place as a magnet for them because I never saw such crew before in 50 miles around. Very scary place.

I did as well, and gotta agree. I didn't feel actively threatened as much as uncomfortable and on edge about what might happen. Waffle Houses (with truckers) and Denny's (with oldsters) seemed much safer and relaxed.