It is lunchtime at Sid's Diner in New Ross, Co Wexford, and business is brisk with nearly all the tables being taken up.
On the menu there is a selection of sandwiches, paninis, with some hot meal options too.
The restaurant opened for business in May 2006, and it is now in its 19th year, but it will not be around for its 20th anniversary.
The place will close for good next month.
"Devastated," said owner Martina Riedy.
"I don't know what I'm going to do. I actually thought I'd be here for another ten years, slogging out, chatting to all my customers, having a good laugh. It's a lovely, homey atmosphere," she said.
"And we're very busy, our customers are great. Actually, they're brilliant, they really back us in every way. But we can't keep going, just can't," Martina added.
The problem, as Martina puts it, is the rising costs of doing business.
"Food increases, the VAT rate gone up - we were hoping it would come back down," she said.
She also quotes other costs too, saying for small business like hers, it cannot cope.
She said: "Unfortunately, things have just got too hard.
"We can't put up our prices. People won't come in anymore. How can they come in and pay 17, 18 euro for a dinner? You can't expect people to pay that."
Martina is scathing about Budget 2025 and the decision not to go with a 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector.
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She said: "Disgraceful...I was actually on to other colleagues in business and they reckon the Government just want to put small businesses out of business.
"They don't seem to want to do anything to help us in any way at all - and we've been through a lot here.
"We flooded a few times which cost us a couple of week's work to clean it out and get it organised again.
"But in 2014 in February, we had severe flooding, and we were closed for six weeks, and we went so we got borrowed money again and renovated the place and kept it going. And then thought we were over the worst when Covid hit.
"Covid was hard, and we came back and we fought it. We started doing takeaways."
There is an issue too, she says, with finding workers. "It's impossible to get staff anymore," she said.
At the moment, she employs seven people, but there should be around 13.
Martina said: "I have a couple of college students that come in on Saturdays to keep us going.
"But we also closed on a Monday because we couldn't get staff two years ago. So, it was easier to just try keep the place running for the five days a week."
For the regulars, news of the closure has been a blow. Marie Browne and Rita Sinnott come to Sid's most days.
"I'm not a bit happy," said Marie. "I'm coming here since they opened, it's so handy."
Rita agrees: "I love it here. People are so friendly and the food is gorgeous.
"I feel sorry for the staff ... they're so friendly, they'd always come over and have a chat."
Martina is due to serve her last meal on Saturday, 2 November.
She said: "I spent 19 years building up this business, and to have to go just close like this is heartbreaking, heartbreaking.
"My heart's broken. I actually don't know how I'm going to feel. And my job is gone. My livelihood is gone. What do I do next?"
