{"id":66908,"date":"2025-12-21T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66908\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:47:09","slug":"dunderbaks-says-itll-stay-open-at-lehigh-valley-mall-as-sales-talks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66908\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunderbak\u2019s says it&#8217;ll stay open at Lehigh Valley Mall as sales talks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beloved, nearly 50-year-old restaurant in the Lehigh Valley Mall will stay open for now, as talks continue with \u201cinterested parties\u201d to purchase the business.\n<\/p>\n<p>Owner Bill Baker announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/17DAW6MkPW\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in July<\/a> that he\u2019d sell or close Dunderbak\u2019s by February, but changed course in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1FxMnNAuwX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Saturday announcement<\/a> due to \u201cdiscussions with interested parties for the purchase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely that should any of these inquiries lead to the sale of the restaurant, that the transition to new ownership will be after our target date of February 28, 2026,\u201d he said online. \u201cTherefore, we intend to operate afterwards on a month to month basis until a settlement date is determined. Any inquiries concerning the purchase of the business should be emailed todunderbaklvmall@gmail.com. Please continue to follow this site for future updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baker and his wife Kate, who are retiring, opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/07\/02\/dunderbaks-retirement-post\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the German-American restaurant<\/a> in 1977, just over a year after the mall itself opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beloved, nearly 50-year-old restaurant in the Lehigh Valley Mall will stay open for now, as talks continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-66908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}