Two Kettering restaurants close/Starlite Diner will continue to operate Dayton location

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By Mark Fisher
Jan 29, 2013
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KETTERING — The Starlite Diner & Restaurant at 4090 Wilmington Pike closed this week, and a second Kettering restaurant, Cafe Mexico at 1122 E. Dorothy Lane, also has closed.

Mahmut Kilic — whose family operated the Kettering Starlite diner and still operates the Starlite Diner & Restaurant at 2627 S. Smithville Road — said his family closed the Kettering location because of slow business and high costs of rent and utilities. They may explore the possibility of opening a second location in the future, Kilic said.

Kilic said the Smithville Road restaurant, located in the building that previously housed the Nanking Inn, seats 80, while the Kettering restaurant seated about 150. Eight employees were affected by the closing, he said. The Smithville Road Starlite is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Also closed is Cafe Mexico, which opened in August 2012 in the space that previously housed several other restaurants, among them Amore Mia, Casa Amici, Amici’s Place, Millie’s Philly Cheesesteaks, Barbie’s Bistro and La Pergola.

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Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.