After almost 50 years of dishing out homestyle meals and stacked breakfast plates, a Dunedin favorite has closed its doors.

Chatterbox Family Restaurant—attached to the Dunedin Lanes bowling alley at 405 Patricia Ave.— served its very last customers yesterday, Monday, Dec. 12.
According to the Tampa Bay Times— which recently did a deep dive on the restaurant’s history—Chatterbox’s third generation owner Billy Drulias is closing the family eatery to retire early. Drulias, 59, and his 89-year old mother Katy Drulias said goodbye to their final customers yesterday, posing for pictures with large balloons that commemorated the restaurant’s 48 year-long run.

Drulias told TBT that he’s considering going back to school, as not finishing college was one of his biggest regrets in life.

Chatterbox is the last of three Drulias family restaurants that once spanned across northern Pinellas County. Clearwaters’ Bay Drive-In and Pete’s Restaurant have both been shuttered for years now, as the family’s last-standing concept joins the ranks of its now-closed siblings.

Drulias’ great uncle, Gus Drulias, immigrated from Greece to the United States and quickly started building his Pinellas County restaurant empire in the 1940s.