When Das Edelweiss Restaurant opened in Warsaw in1994, its owners, Marianne Lee and her daughter, Peggy Scroggins, worked themselves to exhaustion, and when the popular eating place closed in 1997 customers lined the sidewalk to say goodbye.
“We had the best clientele,” Scroggins said.
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