The Snohomish Buzz Inn as seen in August 2024.
Photo by Tribune staff
SNOHOMISH — The Buzz Inn restaurant at Harvey Field will be bowing out Sept. 30.
Since late spring, there had been a rumor floating in the community it will close.
Late last week, the restaurant itself confirmed the date on social media.
The lease will be up, and the airport has plans to renovate the building.
“A restaurant location remains a part of the overall future plan,” Harvey Field’s owner Kandace Harvey said.
The airport plans to refurbish the 1940s-era building and re-organize the space, she said.
Representatives from Buzz Inn’s corporate office did not respond to a Tribune reporter’s inquiries last month or this month.
Tyson Harvey, the owner of Skydive Snohomish, doesn’t have a position within Harvey Field’s direct operations but said he thinks a new restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner will go in.
“An airport without a restaurant is not much of an airport,” he said.
Tyson Harvey said not having Buzz Inn won’t hurt the skydiving business.
Skydive Snohomish attracts daredevils from across the wider Seattle area. “We give our customers a menu of places to go” eat around Snohomish, he said.
Before Buzz Inn, the family ran its own full-service restaurant here called Harvey’s. Washing dishes was one of Tyson Harvey’s first jobs, he reminisced.
The family isn’t getting back in the restaurant biz, he said.
Buzz Inn began leasing the space in October 1998 on a 20-year lease. In 2018, it was extended another six years, Kandace Harvey said.
The Buzz Inn Poker nights at the Snohomish Buzz Inn will move to the Smokey Point Buzz Inn on Sept. 30, the poker tournament’s director said publicly on social media.
Buzz Inn has 12 locations at the moment.
