The owners retired. Update to this story.
Via Indy Star:
A northern Indiana pizza shop that garnered national attention at the height of Indiana’s religious freedom law debate is no longer in business.
The South Bend Tribune reports that a sign placed on the front window of Memories Pizza in Walkerton tells customers that the shop was closed last month. Area business owners contacted by IndyStar Monday confirmed news of the closure.
Calls placed to Memories Pizza went directly to a busy signal. Calls placed to a listed number for Memories Pizza owners Crystal and Kevin O’Connor went unanswered.
The restaurant in the 2,200-person town of Walkerton, about 20 miles southwest of South Bend, went from being largely unknown to being on the lips of people nationwide in April 2015 as it became one of the first businesses to publicly say it would refuse service to a gay wedding, a scenario opponents of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act law feared would happen.
In an interview with a South Bend television station, Memories Pizza owners said they would refuse to cater a wedding for a gay or lesbian couple due to religious reasons, but they said they would not deny service based on sexual orientation.