Mother and daughter opened the cafe for the breakfast crowd. The building and business are now for sale. A customer celebration will take place Nov. 2, the day after closing. The humble but cheerful ...

A small northern Iowa town is losing a favored gathering place, the Chit Chat Cafe.Owner Richard Dorenkamp told the Mason City Globe Gazette that he must close the Thornton restaurant after 39 years ...

THORNTON | For nearly four decades Richard Dorenkamp has been getting up at 5 a.m., going down to the Chit Chat Cafe and opening everything up for 5:30 a.m. coffee drinkers. However, after Friday, ...

The 2012 Preserve Our Pier Supporters Achievement Award for Service to Pacifica and the Pier will be given to Paul and Amy Kukielka, owners of the Chit Chat Cafe at the Pier, at the City Council ...

This is not like other restaurants where the menu is the same as a thousand others around the country. This is not a drive-through, grab-and-go, get-your-hotdog-off-a-roller kind of place. This is a ...

THORNTON, Iowa (AP) — A small northern Iowa town is losing a favored gathering place, the Chit Chat Cafe. Owner Richard Dorenkamp told the Mason City Globe Gazette that he must close the Thornton ...

It’s a Friday night in Pacifica and it is quiet outside, except where people have formed a dance line heading out and right back into the Chit-Chat Cafe on West Manor Drive. Many of these smiling ...