PORTLAND, Ore. — Well-loved coffee shop and diner, Fuller's Coffee Shop is slated to reopen at the end of the month.
"I first came to Fuller's when I went to college at Lewis and Clark in the '80s," said Portland local Lisa Onstad. "It's just a super fun place to come and get that old kind of dining, diner experience."
The Portland diner first opened in 1947, but had to close its doors this past February due to a fire.
"We had our hoods clean three weeks prior and there was some soot left in it and apparently had been smoldering," said General Manager of Fuller's Coffee Shop, Rachel Pean. "The sprinkler alarms came off and basically most of the damage was from the water."
Pean says rebuilding was the only option regardless how long it would take.
"The thing that took the longest was just all the insurance, you know, all the adjusters. There was never a doubt that we were gonna reopen again," said Pean.
Pean said Fuller's will be open by the end of October and will look just how you remembered it.
"We're just looking forward to seeing all those faces again, and, you know, everything's the same, the menu is the same, you know, same employees are coming back."
Locals are equally excited to get back to the old school diner to get their favorite food items and coffee.
"I think a lot of people know about it, and I can be really happy that they're still here," said Onstad.