UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. – They’re only open until the end of the month, but they’ve got their motto “Move or Die” on the door, hoping for a new chapter.

“We’re not going to be able to operate that long because we have to pack our stuff up and clean as best we can,” Benjamin Sawyer, owner of Blue Ocean, said. “Probably the last five days of the month we won’t be able to operate as a business because we rent our stuff and that will have to go back.”

For 17 years, Sawyer and the staff at Blue Ocean have put food on the tables and smiles on the faces of customers of this Delmar Loop eatery. But change is coming.

“Blue Ocean has been in the location for 17 years,” bartender Alex Allen said. “I came here in community college, so there’s a lot of time spent, like the developmental part of their l

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