Comfort food restaurant Dizzy Birds Rotisserie in Biddeford is permanently closing this weekend, with a last service on Saturday, the restaurant has announced on social media. It will continue to accept catering orders through July 31.
The fast-casual restaurant opened in 2019, serving succulent rotisserie chicken dinners, homestyle entrees and pastries — items like chicken pot pie, shepherd’s pie, cornbread, mac and cheese and maple-ginger carrots.
The closure comes after a dramatic decline of dine-in customers and staffing problems over the past year, said Tom Peacock, who co-owns Dizzy Birds with his wife, Barb. The restaurant closed temporarily last December, then reopened in February this year, but only for for take-out and delivery.
After the temporary closure, Peacock had been looking for a tenant with a “complementary concept” to occupy part of the large space, hoping to draw in more dine-in customers and to boost sales. But recent equipment failure and water damage, Peacock said, “added logs to the fire.”
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