Vacation for Anita, 21 Year GM of Rivers
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No one deserves a better send off than Miss Anita Wan! Please consider donating so Anita can enjoy a well deserved vacation after 21 years of service for the people of Glenwood Springs and the countless tourists who enjoyed a meal, laugh and impeccable service at Rivers Restaurant. Thank you Anita! Your community LOVES you!
Goal of $7,665 which is $1 x 365 days x 21 years
"It's a bittersweet week, but I'm glad I made some wonderful friends and had some great adventures along the way. Thanks you guys, you're the best!"
- Anita Wan, Facebook Post, June 1, 2021
"It's with a heavy heart that after 27 years of business Rivers will be closing its doors permanently. We would like to thank all of our loyal customers and community who have supported us for many years. We have had the opportunity to celebrate many milestones of families including baby showers, birthdays, graduations, engagements, weddings. anniversaries, and celebrations of life. We have grown along side many of these families and will miss being able to treasure these moments."
- Rivers Restaurant, Facebook Post, June 2, 2021
After 27 years, Rivers Restaurant bids farewell
For 21 years, Anita Wan has served as general manager of Rivers Restaurant in Glenwood Springs.
Wan and her staff, some of whom had served or cooked at Rivers Restaurant since it opened in 1994, worked their final dinner shift Tuesday night as the restaurant closed permanently.
Earlier Tuesday, Wan expressed her gratitude toward the restaurant’s loyal customers over the years and anticipated the last night would be crazy.
“Crazy busy,” Wan said with a laugh. “It’ll be business as usual until we close the doors.”
Over the course of the past 27 years, community members from all walks of life had shared some of their more intimate moments with Wan and her roughly 20-person staff, she said, celebrating graduation dinners, wedding receptions and other milestone events at Rivers, the restaurant along the Roaring Fork River.
“It is a family here and we have all been here for ... a very, very long time and that has a lot to do with the restaurant and a lot to do with the people that we serve here,” Wan said. “We love our customers.”
The building, located on Grand Avenue near the 27th Street Bridge and along the Roaring Fork River in Glenwood Springs, housed Penelope’s Restaurant prior to Rivers’ opening in 1994.
According to Wan, Rivers Restaurant owners Ben and Desy Herr were trying to sell the building prior to the pandemic and the restaurant’s employees were given ample notice about its forthcoming sale.
“It’s certainly … not a surprise,” Wan said. “Everybody knew this was going to happen, we just didn’t know when.”
She said she was unaware of the identity of the buyer or future plans for the property.
“They really wanted to sell it as a restaurant with staff intact and it just wasn’t happening,” Wan said.
She commended Rivers Restaurant’s staff, including some employees who were not scheduled to work Tuesday evening but asked to come in so they could bid farewell to their customers.
Asked about a favorite dish from over the years, Wan responded promptly, “Overall, everybody just loves our prime rib.”
Rivers Restaurant’s website was also updated Tuesday to thank the community for its support. “After 27 years in business, Rivers Restaurant will be permanently closed effective June 2, 2021,” the site read. “We would like to thank all of our long-time customers and employees who have supported us over these many years.”
- Aspen Daily News, Anna Stonehouse, June 2, 2021
https://www.aspendailynews.com/business/after-27-years-rivers-restaurant-bids-farewell/article_cd275776-c341-11eb-b327-374e9b0baaf5.html
Goal of $7,665 which is $1 x 365 days x 21 years
"It's a bittersweet week, but I'm glad I made some wonderful friends and had some great adventures along the way. Thanks you guys, you're the best!"
- Anita Wan, Facebook Post, June 1, 2021
"It's with a heavy heart that after 27 years of business Rivers will be closing its doors permanently. We would like to thank all of our loyal customers and community who have supported us for many years. We have had the opportunity to celebrate many milestones of families including baby showers, birthdays, graduations, engagements, weddings. anniversaries, and celebrations of life. We have grown along side many of these families and will miss being able to treasure these moments."
- Rivers Restaurant, Facebook Post, June 2, 2021
After 27 years, Rivers Restaurant bids farewell
For 21 years, Anita Wan has served as general manager of Rivers Restaurant in Glenwood Springs.
Wan and her staff, some of whom had served or cooked at Rivers Restaurant since it opened in 1994, worked their final dinner shift Tuesday night as the restaurant closed permanently.
Earlier Tuesday, Wan expressed her gratitude toward the restaurant’s loyal customers over the years and anticipated the last night would be crazy.
“Crazy busy,” Wan said with a laugh. “It’ll be business as usual until we close the doors.”
Over the course of the past 27 years, community members from all walks of life had shared some of their more intimate moments with Wan and her roughly 20-person staff, she said, celebrating graduation dinners, wedding receptions and other milestone events at Rivers, the restaurant along the Roaring Fork River.
“It is a family here and we have all been here for ... a very, very long time and that has a lot to do with the restaurant and a lot to do with the people that we serve here,” Wan said. “We love our customers.”
The building, located on Grand Avenue near the 27th Street Bridge and along the Roaring Fork River in Glenwood Springs, housed Penelope’s Restaurant prior to Rivers’ opening in 1994.
According to Wan, Rivers Restaurant owners Ben and Desy Herr were trying to sell the building prior to the pandemic and the restaurant’s employees were given ample notice about its forthcoming sale.
“It’s certainly … not a surprise,” Wan said. “Everybody knew this was going to happen, we just didn’t know when.”
She said she was unaware of the identity of the buyer or future plans for the property.
“They really wanted to sell it as a restaurant with staff intact and it just wasn’t happening,” Wan said.
She commended Rivers Restaurant’s staff, including some employees who were not scheduled to work Tuesday evening but asked to come in so they could bid farewell to their customers.
Asked about a favorite dish from over the years, Wan responded promptly, “Overall, everybody just loves our prime rib.”
Rivers Restaurant’s website was also updated Tuesday to thank the community for its support. “After 27 years in business, Rivers Restaurant will be permanently closed effective June 2, 2021,” the site read. “We would like to thank all of our long-time customers and employees who have supported us over these many years.”
- Aspen Daily News, Anna Stonehouse, June 2, 2021
https://www.aspendailynews.com/business/after-27-years-rivers-restaurant-bids-farewell/article_cd275776-c341-11eb-b327-374e9b0baaf5.html
Organizer and beneficiary
Maggie Zerfoss
Organizer
Glenwood Springs, CO
Brianna Walden
Beneficiary