Hero, the downtown Portland sandwich shop co-owned by Todd Bernard of Empire and the owners of the popular pizza shop Otto, closed on Monday after being open for five months.
Erik Shepard, spokesman for the Otto restaurant group, told the Portland Press Herald that the shop didn’t work out as expected. Instead, it will use the closure as a chance to focus on opening a new Otto location at 250 Read St. in Portland.
“The partnership and the concept just didn’t pan out like we had hoped,” Shepard told the Press Herald. “The location wasn’t performing at the level it needed to keep going, so we just made the decision to close it.”
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