{"id":72990,"date":"2025-12-29T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:41:09","slug":"griddle-145-to-close-after-over-a-decade-in-whitehall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72990\/","title":{"rendered":"Griddle 145 to close after over a decade in Whitehall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A breakfast and lunch restaurant will close in Whitehall Township only for the team there to begin a new chapter soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Griddle 145 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/griddle145\/posts\/pfbid02Htydhjx8trkvuPpxPba4rzJ82ZpkCqNLEzxqvwWWBzYfe35iQoC2Zv5tA256rApbl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> it will close Wednesday at 1146 MacArthur Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis place has been more than a restaurant \u2014 it\u2019s been part of our lives, and part of yours,\u201d the restaurant said online. \u201cWe\u2019ve watched families grow, friendships form, milestones celebrated, and routines become traditions. For that, we are endlessly grateful. Closing this chapter is emotional. We\u2019re sad to say goodbye to these walls, deeply thankful for the memories made here, and incredibly excited for what\u2019s ahead \u2014 all at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen and front-of-house team will move to the new restaurant The Broken Record at 6776 Hamilton Blvd., Unit 1 in Lower Macungie Township, where its menu will include many Griddle 145 dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Griddle 145 said breakfast service there will begin in early January, but Jeff Trainer, who will co-own The Broken Record alongside Andrea Kenney, said they still need to get township approval to open at 8 a.m. instead of 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitehall restaurant opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2013\/02\/07\/restaurant-review-griddle-145-sizzles-in-whitehall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2012<\/a> under Taylor and Sherry Eisenhard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A breakfast and lunch restaurant will close in Whitehall Township only for the team there to begin a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72991,"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":{"0":"post-72990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","14":"tag-retail","15":"tag-things-to-do","16":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72990","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=72990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}