Lucille Dust of Munster and her daughter Lynn Beilfuss, visiting from Georgia, spent their Friday lunch date saying goodbye to their menu favorites at the Commander Restaurant, a dining destination landmark at 745 Ridge Road in Munster for 45 years.

“Their breakfasts are always wonderful, and of course, their Greek lemon rice soup is legendary,” Dust said.

“We are sitting in the same two-seater booth where I still can remember the original husband and wife owners used to sit in later years. I’d recognize them because I used to take Lynn’s son, my grandson Joshua, who’s 20 now, to eat here when he was just a kid, and he always wanted us to sit at the old-fashioned lunch counter.”

On Oct. 8, brothers Danny and Bobby Sirounis announced via a Facebook post “the end of an era” with the sale

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