Saskatoon restauranteur leaving industry after decades in The Cave [Video]

For nearly his entire life, George Kosmas can remember spending days and nights at The Cave.

The unique Saskatoon restaurant has hosted countless anniversaries, birthdays and family suppers for more than 51 years, but Kosmas and his family are set for a new chapter after selling the business to a local ownership group.

“I know when I leave here every night and I’m locking the door, I know I’m getting closer and closer to the last time I turn that key, and yeah, it’s going to be hard to turn that key for the last time,” Kosmas said.

Managing the Saskatoon dining staple for many years alongside his mother and father, who originally bought the building with a business partner in 1973, has been the Kosmas family’s life work.

Kosmas says people looked at his father sideways when he had the audacious idea of renovating the building to look like …