A small chalkboard let customers know that Betsy had passed.

Betsy is survived by her sister, Shirley Tung, and her five children Elizabeth Yee, LeAnn Yee, Daryl Yee, Lynette Yee and Lyris Patterson, and seven grandchildren.

Betsy took over Blue Fin in 1991, when she was 57 years old.

Betsy Mae Quan Toy Yee, the charismatic owner of Blue Fin, a Japanese restaurant serving downtown Phoenix since 1981, died Oct. 18. She was 91.

“It seemed like Betsy knew everybody that walked in through that door. She treated them like family. I mean, I felt like I was one of her children,” Mark Schweikert, who’s been a regular since 2008, said.

Lyn Yee, Betsy’s daughter, started working at the restaurant in 2006 and has been running it herself since 2020, when Betsy took a step back. She plans to keep

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