Mad Melt on University closes

According to a Facebook update posted on the MAD melt page by owner Peter Madden, the restaurant concept has been permanently shuttered. Following is an excerpt from that post: “To put it bluntly, we are closed permanently as a restaurant. Yesterday, May 1st, was our last day. It just did not make sense to keep it open any longer. Without going into a lot of detail, it was costing more money to operate it than to close it. In other words, I lose less money by closing than by keeping it open. We thought about making an announcement, but to be honest, I really did not want to create a potential situation in which we had people lined up outside the door for one last taste or a first visit. We were short staffed and we slowly dwindled our product down, so if that situation had occurred, we likely would…