{"id":53103,"date":"2020-06-25T20:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T02:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/carver-brewing-co-in-durango-drops-breakfast-menu\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:02:52","slug":"carver-brewing-co-in-durango-drops-breakfast-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/carver-brewing-co-in-durango-drops-breakfast-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Carver Brewing Co. in Durango drops breakfast menu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=80f57e8c-365f-4c3a-be4e-a66f74c88502&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1033\" alt=\"Carver Brewing Co. has dropped breakfast from its menu for the first time in 37 years. Jim Carver, co-owner, says there are no plans to bring it back, but the business situation is changing so fast in the COVID-19 environment, \u201cit\u2019s hard say anything is permanent.\u201d\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Carver Brewing Co. has dropped breakfast from its menu for the first time in 37 years. Jim Carver, co-owner, says there are no plans to bring it back, but the business situation is changing so fast in the COVID-19 environment, \u201cit\u2019s hard say anything is permanent.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After 37 years, Carver Brewing Co., which  started life as a bakery, has dropped breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say it\u2019s permanent. Everything is evolving so fast these days, but breakfast was really slow,\u201d said co-owner Jim Carver.<\/p>\n<p>Since the restaurant reopened June 10, after the forced closure for COVID-19 restrictions, the breakfast crowd has been thin, hurt by the lack of commerce around town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were a gathering place in the morning for people getting the day started, business meetings. That type of thing. Realtors would meet here to get the day started. The City Council used to meet here in the mornings. All that\u2019s gone now. There are no business meetings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Carver Brewing served its first breakfast on June 4, 1983, when it was still located in Winter Park. Jim and Bill Carver moved the brewpub to Durango in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy my count, we served breakfast for 13,500 days.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Carver said breakfast amounted to only 12% of sales.<\/p>\n<p>For now, there are no plans to bring back breakfast, Carver said. However, he added with the situation changing so fast in the COVID-19 economy, it is \u201chard to say anything is permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe use to think six months ahead. When we closed we were thinking three days ahead. Now, we\u2019re looking a few weeks ahead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible in a few months, as more people are out and about, a brunch could be added, Carver said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Carver Brewing is seeing about 70% of normal sales and is at about 70% of normal staffing, Carver said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brewpub had offered morning meal since opening in 1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4389,685,450],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-carver-brewing-co","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-restaurant-and-catering"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88216,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53103\/revisions\/88216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53103"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}