A downtown Bowling Green restaurant is closing its doors for good.

Steven Sterling, owner of Sterling’s Amish Deli, located at 133 E. Wooster St., announced on Sunday that after six years of ownership, the restaurant will cease operations in the upcoming weeks.

Sterling cites a lack of business and a change in interest as reasons for the closure. Prior to his purchase of the restaurant in 2019, it was owned by Lori Hanway.

“I was presented with an opportunity to fulfill one of my dreams of serving the community by helping sober up drunk college students by selling food late at night downtown. Well over $100k and two remodels later, the deli became what it is today. Collectively, I spent almost two years of my life gutting every square inch of that building, with my own two hands, with some help from some friends and family, turning a run-down old building into a fully functional place that people would actually want to go and enjoy a meal,” Sterling wrote in a Facebook post. “After all of that hard work, the people never really showed up.”

In the post, which has over 500 reactions, Sterling asks the community to “stop in the next coming weeks for your last Amish deli experience before we close this chapter of my life and move on to the next.”