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HOLLAND, Mich. â âI m barely hanging on here,â says Terry McMurry, owner of the Windmill Restaurant in downtown Holland. âI m not even really hanging on . we re losing money being open.â
Thatâs what the pandemic has done to an eatery that has been in business since the 1940s. McMurry has owned the place since 1983, serving decades of hash brown omelets and fresh-baked cinnamon rolls.
But he knows how much the Windmill Restaurant means to people: âThis is a college town, so we get people that come back every year, saying, âOh, you know, I have to visit the Windmill when I m in town, because they were here in college.â A lot of college students come in here for their breakfast because we ve got dormitory style housing right close, and now we ve got a lot of apartment dwellers here, too.â