Pearl's Downtown Lansing Eatery Changes Owners

Pearl’s Café and Coffee Shop, a small eatery that feeds many of Downtown’s workforce, has changed owners.

According to excerpts from the article:

Pearl's Café and Coffee Shop is the epitome of a hole-in-the-wall, tucked away on the first floor of the Boji Tower in downtown Lansing. Most folks who happen by Pearl's have business inside the tower's Senate Hearing Room or with a lawyer on the 21st floor. But those lucky explorers who do find Wendy Burns' mini-eatery, just past the elevators, well, they're in for a treat.

Talk to many restaurateurs and chances are you’ll hear how a sluggish economy is taking a toll on business. But in Burns' case, the tanking economy actually helped push her into the business last June. She worked for the previous owner, and when opportunity rang, she stepped up to the counter. 

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