NORTHRIDGE : Quake Finally Claims Bakers Square Eatery

More evidence that the aftershocks from the January quake continue: Bakers Square coffee shop in Northridge served up its last slice of pie Friday.

The restaurant, which reopened within days of the quake, was the only business in a Tampa Avenue strip mall that was able to keep going. But after surviving the temblor, the eatery couldn’t survive in a ghost town.

Not that it didn’t try, despite losing all of its kitchen equipment in the quake. Until the equipment could be replaced, the restaurant served bottled beverages and offered to-go meals, said manager Terry McMullen.

But many of its former customers never came back. Garry Reichlmayr, a Bakers Square area director, blamed the devastation surrounding the restaurant and the depressed economic state of Northridge.