As for Doug and myself, you can imagine, it is a bittersweet time for us. Due to a number of things in our life we are just not able to keep going. Both our health has taken a hit the past 5 years (especially Doug's) and we need to rejuvenate and make some changes.
How can we say thank you......first, to our staff. It is so hard to even try to express how much they have meant to the whole D&K experience. Kelly, CR, Natalia, Lily, Olga, Juan and so many more. All I can say is if anyone gets the chance to have them on your team you are the luckiest business in SoWal. Kelly, we have missed you.
I want to especially thank Chris who has been with Doug to the very end. He has sacrificed to help Doug for the past year in ways I can't even express. He is the hardest worker I've ever known and has definitely secured the #1 waiter
spot on the coast. I can only hope that in the future we will get to work together again. D&K's would not be D&K's without him!!!! Thank you Chris!!!!
Second, thanks to YOU, who made it possible for us to continue through the good times and the rough. It is so hard to even write about those who have followed us from the beginning 20 years ago. Your support, cards of thanks, pictures, gifts, jokes, reservations for 20!, reservation for two, those who just popped in for a cup of gumbo, birthday parties, weddings, pop the chanpagne!, anniversaries, baby showers, memorials, Seaside Neighborhood School's Cross Country Team stopping by for a cool drink, help....someone needs Doug to get their car out of the sand:roll:, fresh catch of the day from boats coming off the beach ;-), the fun we had watching everyone outside waiting to get into the Red Bar from our bird's eye view, Grayton Parades, Grayton Art, Grayton Dogs, Grayton Sunsets, Grayton Sand swept and swept again by the staff, windy rainey days that brought everyone in from the porch, ahhhhhhhhh air condition that came with the renovation, friends, family, those who liked us and those who didn't
, locals, tourists, food critics, Red Hat Club, The SUN, our distributors 
, time to take a Michelob Lite to the kitchen, pickett fences and shuttered windows, hearing the screen door close from The Love Shack behind us, all the "Zoo Gallery Girls", NOLA, Fluer de Lis, loud music, no music, someone's cussing because they couldn't get a parking spot, smiling faces when they did get a parking spot (like winning the lottery!), how many times can you imagine we've all said "watch your step" or "be careful going down those stairs!", comedians, celebrities, smiling everytime I drove by the Hiabiscus sign "Be Courteous", barefoot and bathing suits to all out rhinestones and stillettos, red beans and rice to stuffed snapper with shrimp & crab cream sauce, Key Lime Pie to Bananas Foster Cheesecake, mini muffins....please just one more, The Shadowman's Halloween to his Frosty D&K Christmas, nowwww Spring Break is almost here once again!Grayton Dayz and D&K's!
All of this could not have happened without
YOU!
Thank YOU For The Memories!
Happy Valentine's Day
All of this could not have happened without
YOU!
Thank YOU For The Memories!
Happy Valentine's Day
And, a special thanks to SoWal and all it's members....who lets me rant on and on. Thanks Kurt!
Okay, I'll stop....for now.;-) Please forgive the grammer and I didn't spell check.... just posted through tears.
Crump sure is going to hate that he won't get anymore of the mini-muffins. Guess there is not a chance you would give that recipe away huh?
) I know it is very hard...but I believe your lives will be a better place for all of you to have some time to actually breathe! Restaurant work is HECTIC! (fufilling but crazy). Sad to see you close, but I know you will be fine. You had a daym good run!! 
Good luck on your new adventure.
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