Reprint: The Baltimore Sun, March 03, 2002
So, you want to run an inn-restaurant?
Competition: The former Maryland couple who won a Maine inn through an essay contest nine years ago plan to pass it on the same way.
Destination : The Northeast
Dreams run their course, too, especially when they involve such long working hours.
So the former Maryland couple who made the national media rounds nine years ago when they won a Maine inn through a contest have decided to call it quits. They're giving away the 11-room Center Lovell Inn and restaurant as they got it -- in an essay competition.
After more than 20 years in the restaurant business, Janice Cox says she and her husband, Richard, need a break.
"It's not so much the inn, it's being in the restaurant business so long," says Janice, former manager of the now-defunct Busch's Chesapeake Inn, a 300-seat restaurant near Annapolis. "It takes up all your time. You just don't have any time for yourself. The upside is the people are so great."
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So the former Maryland couple who made the national media rounds nine years ago when they won a Maine inn through a contest have decided to call it quits. They're giving away the 11-room Center Lovell Inn and restaurant as they got it -- in an essay competition.
After more than 20 years in the restaurant business, Janice Cox says she and her husband, Richard, need a break.
"It's not so much the inn, it's being in the restaurant business so long," says Janice, former manager of the now-defunct Busch's Chesapeake Inn, a 300-seat restaurant near Annapolis. "It takes up all your time. You just don't have any time for yourself. The upside is the people are so great."
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