By Chante Wouden
The McDonald''s on 900 East will close its doors for good this Friday, August 8; the location killed it.
'We''re kind of hidden back there behind some other businesses,' said Dennis Hall, owner/operator of the McDonald''s.
Even after 20 years, he said some people who live in the area are still not aware of the location.
Driving down 900 East either way, potential customers could see two yellow arches and a McDonald''s billboard but still miss the store.
'I saw the sign that said ''McDonald''s to the left'', but I never saw McDonald''s,' said Drew Hanks, a senior from Houston, majoring in economics and history teaching.
He was not the only one.
The store is hard to see from the road because it is tucked away behind Hogi Yogi and adjacent to Little Caesars Pizza.
Gold''s Gym in the same parking lot may not help either, said Darren Werner, a Provo resident for 10 years.
He and his friend sat at a McDonald''s outdoor table, eating Little Caesars Pizza.
They came to McDonald''s for the ice cream-neither said they cared too much about the closing.
'There''s probably a McDonald''s down there a couple blocks,' said Werner''s friend, Chris Taggart, a Springville resident for five years. 'They are everywhere.'
Hall owns the three other McDonald''s located in Provo.
Hall said he gave employees at the 900 East McDonald''s the opportunity to relocate to one of the others.
Austin Loveless, a BYU student and McDonald''s employee took him up on the offer. He will relocate to the busiest McDonald''s on Bulldog Boulevard.
Loveless said the closure did not surprise him.
'It doesn''t do any business,' said Loveless, a sophomore from Bountiful, majoring in French. 'Although there are a few people who come faithfully, and they''ll miss it.'
Loveless said one man comes in every night at 10 p.m. and commented he would not be able to go to McDonald''s anymore once this one closed; this location was the most convenient for him.
Clancy Morley, 14, from Payson is another faithful customer. He stops in for Big Macs with his youth group.
'Now when we come back from the temple we will have nowhere to stop and eat,' Morley said. 'This is close enough that nobody starves on the way over.'
The 900 East McDonald''s opened about 20 years ago. It was the first store hall ever opened.
Hall said he hopes to reopen somewhere else on 900 East again in the future.
'We''re going to miss the clientele,' Hall said, 'but we hope to be back here someday.'