Hullar's Restaurant of Fayetteville, which opened in 1911, will close Saturday

Fayetteville, N.Y. -- Hullar's Restaurant, one of the oldest restaurants in the Syracuse area, will close on Saturday.

Workers at Hullar's confirmed the news today. Few other details were available as of midday today.  Restaurant servers said the business will close at 10 p.m. Saturday.

Attempts to reach Nanette Hullar and other members of the restaurant were unsuccessful.

A server who didn't want to give her name said she believes the restaurant is closing because there just hasn't been enough customers lately. The restaurant was about half full for lunch Thursday.

There was no sign on the door alerting customers to the upcoming closure.

The family-owned and run restaurant opened in 1911. Hullar's survived Prohibition by selling gasoline and ice cream. It became famous for its hot beef on kimmelweck, its haddock and its hamburgers.

And it became an integral part of the village, a place to get breakfast, lunch and dinner, and to catch up on the latest local news.

"I know everybody who comes in," Nanette Hullar said in 2011, when the restaurant celebrated its 100th anniversary. "I love the people."

The location has served as a restaurant or inn since the early 19th century. It became known as the Wands House. Jacob Hullar bought the place in 1908 and reopened it as Hullar's Restaurant.

It became a place of comfort, and comfort food. In the late 1990s, there was a minor dust-up in the village when the restaurant changed some staff and added Cajun-influenced and other then-newfangled menu items.

Regular customers didn't like it.

"They know what they want when they get up in the morning," Nanette Hullar said a few years ago, remembering the reaction.

In 2015, Jacob Hullar III, died. The family's loss caused confusion with the restaurant's liquor license in 2015. The situation grew dire -- at one point the state's Liquor Authority denied the decades' old restaurant the ability to serve alcohol.

State officials quickly granted an extension after news broke that the Hullars were considering closing over the lost license.

Nanette Hullar was the fourth generation of her family to run the restaurant.

When asked about the restaurant's secret to success last summer, Hullar laughed.

"Craziness? Madness?," she said. "I was 15 years old when I started there. I never thought I would last this long. We have great customers. We're a neighborhood bar. And family. Because the family is in it, that's what kept it going."

Staff writer Teri Weaver contributed to this story

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