SMYRNA, Ga. (CBS46) – A preferred eating spot in Smyrna is closing its doorways after over 40 years of enterprise.

“It’s such a sad time,” says Founder Joe Bogino.

Scalini’s Italian Restaurant on Cobb Parkway made the large announcement on its web site and Facebook web page Monday, thanking the group for all of their help all through the years. Bogino tells CBS46 that they needed to shut attributable to struggles discovering workers.

Scalini’s is understood for its well-known eggplant parmigiana that has been served to expectant moms for many years in hopes of rushing up the supply course of.

“One gal or two came in, happened to eat the eggplant, delivered their baby, I think they started telling people of that occurrence and it just caught on all by itself,” stated Bogino. “Do I believe this induces labor? I believe my customer! They tell me it induces labor; I believe them!”

So a lot in order that they even created an “Eggplant Baby Club” the place those that gave beginning not lengthy after consuming Scalini’s eggplant dish might ship photographs to be added to the restaurant’s well-known “Baby Wall” of images.

“I guess I didn’t realize until recently how much it meant to everyone. We ran it like a business and people didn’t take it as a business. This is their home away from home, I guess, their comfort food, their place to celebrate, and it meant a lot to them and it means even more to us,” stated Bogino.

For those that can’t appear to half with Scalini’s scrumptious meals, the restaurant stated in a Facebook submit:

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