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Jul 9, 2009 1:10 pm US/Pacific
Squeeze Inn Squeezed Out, Restaurant To Move
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The Squeeze Inn is often packed to capacity.
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The Squeeze Inn is being squeezed out. The owner of the famous burger joint that some say has the best burgers in Sacramento says he'll shut down and move to another location after getting slapped with a lawsuit over handicapped access.
The current owner of the 30-year-old Fruitridge Road mainstay was hit with a lawsuit filed by a disabled woman who calls the restaurant inaccessible to people with disabilities.
The plaintiff, a Sacramento wheelchair-bound woman, says that there's no handicap parking in the front, no ramp to get a wheelchair through the front door, no room for a wheelchair to turn around inside the business, no room for a wheelchair to sit at the outdoor tables, and no ramp into the restroom.
Owner Travis Hausauer says he'll move rather fight the lawsuit and take on the expense of trying to retrofit the tiny restaurant.
"The frustrating part is we always try to take care of people with special needs," Hausauer said told CBS13 earlier this week. "We have customers who come up and honk their horn, and we run out and take care of them. I say it's never our intention to discriminate against anybody."
Hausauer says he already has real estate agents looking for a new location.
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