Caspers Hot Dogs is closing its oldest remaining Bay Area location |
Caspers Hot Dogs at 2530 Macdonald Ave., Richmond, Calif., is closing after nearly 80 years.
The Richmond location of nostalgic local chain Caspers Hot Dogs is closing after nearly 80 years, co-owners Ron Dorian and Paul Rustigian confirmed to SFGATE. Friday is the final day for the Caspers at 2530 MacDonald Ave.; however, it will reopen as a new hot dog restaurant under a new owner, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle (the Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms).
“It’s the last remaining store that goes back to all four of our grandparents,” Dorian told SFGATE.
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Stephen Beklian (Dorian’s grandfather) and Paul Agajan (Rustigian’s grandfather) opened the first Caspers in Oakland in the early 1930s after immigrating from Armenia. The closure of the........