“The lease is up at the end of December, but we decided to close a little early,” says Mercy Kasle. Mercy’s last day will be Saturday, May 17. “The summer months are quiet anyway,” says Burmese-born Kasle, who lent her name to the French-Burmese restaurant she and her husband, Steve, opened in 2009 in the Bell Tower Hotel.

The Kasles, now in their sixties, are feeling tired. “We were talking to Ryan [Gillies], the owner of Logan, and said, ‘We’re old enough to be your parents!’ We don’t have the energy we used to anymore.” They’re looking forward to spending more time with their grandchildren–zoos, museums, concerts, and even “doing homework with them.”