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Tom Butcher to greet customers on possible final days of Impressions
Published: 7/13/2011 3:27 PM
Last Modified: 7/13/2011 3:42 PM


Tom Butcher

Impressions restaurant owner Tom Butcher will greet customers roughly from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday on what might be the final two days of business for the popular downtown eatery.

“He might keep the restaurant open a couple of more days next week, but that isn’t certain,’ said his wife, Susan Butcher.

Tom Butcher has been recuperating from surgery in mid March to have a tumor removed from his lower back, and he has not worked since the surgery.

Meantime, Kanbar Properties, owner of the Oil Capital Building, 507 S. Main St., where Impressions is located, gave the restaurant notice it must vacate the building by the end of this month, Susan Butcher said.

On Wednesday, it was announced Kanbar Properties is vacating all tenants from the Oil Capital Building and the Avanti Building, 810 S. Cincinnati Ave.

Susan Butcher said she remains optimistic that Impressions will reopen, hopefully in the downtown area.

Tom Butcher opened his first Impressions — a cedar building with a slanted roof — at 15th Street and Lewis Avenue in 1978. He was there 21 years before Albertson’s bought him out to build a grocery store and gas station.

He then operated Pizza Dot Tom in the Brady District for two years before resurrecting Impressions in its current location in 2002.

Impressions is best known for its hot and cold sandwiches, salads, baked potatoes and spicy turkey chili.


Reader Comments 2 Total
Micah Choquette (last year)
No news as to WHY Kanbar is forcing their tenants to vacate? I guess they're going to try to cash out. Really too bad, this was one of my favorite spots.
Anyone heard anything new? I miss Impressions.
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