Jake's, beloved Menomonie supper club, closes

Jake's Supper Club, which billed itself as the place where "prime rib is king," closed Monday.

[Gravedigger]

This is what happens when family owned and operated small businesses are pit against regional and national big corporate businesses.

Mayor Kropp and Menomonie need to wake up!

[Workaday Oakdale Brother]

I wish that this Jake's, and the other Jake's in the Coates / Rosemount area, would both reopen.

[Homer J]

Gravedigger wrote:

This is what happens when family owned and operated small businesses are pit against regional and national big corporate businesses.
Mayor Kropp and Menomonie need to wake up!

Hopefully people will wake up. The National chains are just ok. If you want REAL food eat at the smaller mom and pop operations.

[jho]

Did I hear it right, is Jakes really closing?

Homer J wrote:

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Hopefully people will wake up. The National chains are just ok. If you want REAL food eat at the smaller mom and pop operations.

[mac]

It is sad a family owned business closed. However, Menomonie is not monopolized by big corporate family restaurant chains (besides fast food) and that is why so many residents go to Eau Claire and elsewhere to eat, taking their money out of Dunn County. Jake's was nice to eat at, but the food was only so-so. Feel sorry for the employees but Menomonie needs to wake up and have more than a couple of sit-down restaurants that people actually want to eat at.

[Happy Customer]

Jake's is re-opening! Feb 2009. Two University of Wisconsin Stout graduates will be working their hardest to get everyone's favorite supper club up and running.

[Jakes Supper Club]

OK, we are open and looking for all you fans of Prime Rib, the Tiki Bar and Tainter Lake to "come on down". We are open M-Thurs at 4, Friday at 11 am and Sat 10:30 am and Sun at 10 am. Friday Perch Fry, Sunday Brunch and Prime Rib Thur - Sun are all part of the specials that Jake's are offering AGAIN. Hope to see you soon. Kim and Peter

[Tony Welch]

I miss Jakes -- and I live in Portland, Oregon !

Way back when, I'd get a snootful and then whizz a pint or two off the dock trying to kill the damn algae.