Family friends of our owned a restaurant - well to do people, he's a doctor, both nice people. Would certainly not knowingly run a dump.
Absentee landlord by the owners is the problem. They hire a restaurant manager who lets the place slide into squalor, but since they don't really venture too far into the kitchen (or even the restaurant for say, a month or two) it goes down hill fast. Just like your own house, take a break from cleaning and it turn into a dive real fast.
The people ultimately sold the place. Really tough to recover after bad publicity like that.
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