Andrew Hutto is tired, worn down by the stress, the hours, the headaches and hassles of the restaurant business, the only work he’s known for the past three decades.
The owner of Baxter Station Bar and Grill, Hutto heated up the Louisville HotBytes forum recently when he said he would soon put the 23-year-old Irish Hill business and its property up for sale.
His reasons: He’s tired of chasing trends, tired of battling in a restaurant marketplace with more seats than willing customers to occupy them, tired of watching dollars—be they civic or private —go to hot areas of town, such as NuLu, rather than into communities where Old Guard restaurateurs would like to see some investment, tired of seeing local government officials court out-of-town companies while not returning his calls.
