Benaddiction announces closure after 13 years in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It was a packed location Saturday morning, arsenic Fresno residents geared up to accidental goodbye to a meal staple.

"We've been coming present for a precise agelong time, and it's precise peculiar to us, truthful we wanted to travel and person our past repast here," said longtime lawsuit Madelyn De La Cruz.

De La Cruz tells Action News that she and her friends person been eating astatine Bennaddiction since 2013, erstwhile proprietor James Caples operated a nutrient motortruck successful Downtown Fresno.

What started arsenic a passionateness task blossomed into a beloved meal spot, adjacent being featured connected our Dine and Dish series successful 2022.

"I've built a truly beardown assemblage of regulars and followers who emotion what we bash here, and I'm bittersweet that we're not gonna spot them anymore," Caples said.

He told america helium loves his food, known for his eggs Benedict and pancakes, but it's ever been astir the people.

For De La Cruz, that civilization is what has kept her coming back.

"We person meal places, we person tons of chains, things similar that, but this was conscionable thing that felt precise homegrown Fresno," De La Cruz said.

But Bennaddiction has fallen connected hard times.

Caples says the abrupt closure of their archetypal determination successful 2023, tacked onto rising prices and a crippling authorities shutdown past year, near him struggling to marque ends meet.

"I stopped paying myself, starting moving mostly for tips for my money, and we were managing to get by, to squeak by that way," Caples said.

Our ABC30 Price Tracker shows bacon prices successful Fresno astatine $5.63 per lb successful 2016; 10 years later, it has jumped to $7.29.

Eggs are besides seeing a spike, going from $2.33 to $3.49.

Caples told Action News that by October 2025, income had dropped 25% from the erstwhile year, leaving them astir $800,000 successful the hole.

"It conscionable got to a constituent wherever I'm conscionable excessively bushed to support doing it, truthful we're gonna find a nice, peaceful occupation for a while," Caples said.

But helium isn't saying goodbye without offering his loyal customers a accidental astatine taking a portion of Benaddiction home...

"Starting adjacent weekend, we're gonna commencement selling our mugs connected a bid offer," Caples told us.

"It's hard, it's 13 years of your life, it's hard."