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Vivian Moon
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Posted: Jun 29 2014 at 11:24am |
Posted: McCrabb: Businessman says he’s ‘run out of gas’
By Rick McCrabb Staff Writer It’s time to move on, he says, to sell his
business, and to retire to He called the decision “a pretty easy one.” Mehl is trying his sell Broadway News, a
business he has owned for 21 years, since he brought it from Tom and Lucy
Ewing. He has tried to sell the business before, a few years ago, back when the
economy “went to hell,” he said. Now it’s on the market for $225,000, which
includes the business and the building, what he called “a very, very good
price.” Then he added: “I want to move it.” But there’s another catch: Mehl wants
whoever buys Broadway News to retain his employees, whom he calls “my family.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Mehl walked into Broadway News, It’s not like Mehl bosses them around. He
has trained them, and now trusts them enough to run the business. “He’s a good boss,” Brock said. When
asked what that means, she said: “He treats you like you’re somebody.” Crockett
joined Broadway News after Kelly’s Market, a family-owned business, closed,
ending her 20-year career there. She said 75 percent of the customers at
Broadway are the same ones from Kelly’s. “Without these customers,” she said, “none
of us would have a job.” She called Mehl “an amazing person.” They said these things after he
left for the day. Broadway News doesn’t feel like some of
those corporate owned carry-outs where the employees would rather be on their
cellphones than assisting customers. Most of the customers are greeted by their
first name, and the employees know why they’re there: to buy lottery tickets,
pick up a milk, buy a newspaper or pay their utility bills. Brock recalled a conversation she had with
the Ohio Lottery agent. He services more than 100 lottery outlets, and while
Broadway News is the top seller in the city, something else separates it from
the competition, he noticed. “He couldn’t believe how we treat our
customers and how they treat us,” Brock said. “While he was here, one of them said, ‘Love
you girls” as he walked out the door and we said back, ‘Love you too.’” Other stores attract customers with loyalty
cards. At Broadway, they just show loyalty. Mehl has had eight employees over the last 21
years. You do the math. But all things have to end, and for Mehl,
that time is now. He has lost vision in his left eye after cataract surgery,
and blood clots in his legs have moved to his lungs. He offered the business to his two
daughters, but they have seen the stress the long hours put on their father,
plus they have their careers and families. Mehl bought Broadway News, then moved it
out of the Sorg Opera House into the former Parrot Restaurant. He said business
has been “good,” and he expects it to increase as the downtown continues its
revitalization. He’s hopeful Cincinnati State Middletown, a renovated Sorg
Opera House, and a bed-and-breakfast at the “It’s going to happen,” he said. And he hopes to read about it — while
sitting on the beach.
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