Stop, thief! Put down that stove!
During her years in the restaurant business, Lucie Slone Meyers has been around a lot of really hot stoves.
But now there’s a stove that didn’t even make it to her kitchen before it became hot — in other words, stolen.
Hunting for a bargain, Slone Meyers paid about $1,200 for a used, dual-convection, six-burner stove that had belonged to a Chevy Chase restaurant that went out of business.
After the stove was hauled to Slone Meyers’ a la Lucie restaurant on North Limestone Street, it quickly became clear there was a problem: The stove wouldn’t fit through the doors of the restaurant.
She also realized that someone would have to be there to connect the stove to the gas line when she got it into the restaurant.
So Slone Meyers left the stove outside of the restaurant, covered with a big tarp, for about two weeks while she made the arrangements.
In the meantime, someone stole the stove.
“I’m sure it went straight to a junkyard and it’s scrap metal,” she told Herald-Leader reporter Steve Lannen.
But the missing stove hasn’t affected a la Lucie’s business. The restaurant’s 23-year-old stove is cooking away in the kitchen.
Still, Slone Meyers said, “If you know anyone who has a used one to sell …”
