It was an attempt to attract more business, and it was working. People drove past the sign, burst out laughing and stopped in to quell their curiosity. But the landlord spoiled the fun when he made Patricia Calet, proprietor of Granny’s Bitchen Kitchen, remove her sign.
“I was small and I needed an eye catcher,” says Calet, who went into business two years ago. “I love people, feed them good food, get them laughing and get the bitching out of their soul. They leave a lot happier. The only one that complained about the sign was my landlord—and a principal from a nearby school. Other than that, everybody loved it. People actually complained when the sign came down.”
Calet appeased the property owner by simply writing “Granny’s Kitchen” in her shop window, at 286 E. Cuyahoga Falls Ave., at the cross street of Dayton in North Hill. “I thought of putting a big ‘B’ with dashes in the middle, but I knew it would just tick him off,” she says with a chuckle.
Patrons who frequent the café for Calet’s homemade soups and specials still get a hoot at the sign that now hangs above the counter grill. Grins and guffaws also come while perusing the menu’s mission statement, which proclaims, “If you don’t get enough to eat, it’s your own damn fault.”
Calet cautions that seating capacity is limited to three cozy booths and five counter stools, and many of her patrons are “regulars.”
“So, God help you if they come in and you’re sitting in their seat,” she says.
