Is getting pre-pandemic customers back has been more challenging than they anticipated. KTVU South Bay reporter Lamonica Peters live now at Santana Row, with more on the restaurant and the bar closing. Lamonica >> Julie, the manager, says that some of the employees have been working here for several years and it's bittersweet to say goodbye, but after the pandemic, it was just difficult for the pub to bounce back. >> We were very disappointed to hear. We just heard yesterday that they would be closing, and I think it's a loss for Santana Row from customers to staff members, those who love Rosie McCann's at Santana Row say they're going to miss the food, the fun and the cozy feeling of the Irish pub. >> I know the customers are sad after Covid. The business kind of been declining, but it's more about like the staff and the family to me. We've been here for so long. >> The owner of Rosie McCann's, Mina Shamsi, made this post on social media announcing the restaurant's last day of service would be April 20th. Retail analysts say Santana Row is most likely in a transitional phase, with newer brands coming in and older businesses on the way out. >> I expect them to switch their tenant mix towards a little bit of a higher end tenant mix, but I don't necessarily see them having to switch it into a Miami bar. Miami Design center like high end location, because that already exists over there. >> Corral, who's worked at McCann's for nearly a decade, says she found out about the closing last week. She says some employees have been offered jobs at a second location in downtown Santa Cruz, but the pub just couldn't survive in a changing economic landscape. >> It's just like inflation. We live in California. Everything's so expensive and trying to keep up with the cost of other restaurants in Santana Row, it makes it hard. >> Daniel Roberts, who's at the restaurant bar for the first time, says he lived in Europe for 14 years and having an Irish pub nearby reminds him of his former home. >> It kind of surprised, actually. It's very rare to find good Irish pubs in the South Bay. And so actually today, as we were walking past, we saw this and thought, oh great, let's get some Irish food. >> Now some of the customers also told us they felt that this is a big cultural loss to the community, and that they still understand why the decision was made to make April 20th, the last day of service
