I've seen restaurants with great food close because of terrible business sense, and I've also seen a few closings recently of long-standing places where the own

I've seen restaurants with great food close because of terrible business sense, and I've also seen a few closings recently of long-standing places where the owners wanted to retire and couldn't find anyone they'd trust that would take over. COVID amplified these effects for a time too. I'm sure a higher fraction of closing restaurants are mid (or worse), but by raw numbers there are many places legitimately worth memorializing. Associated personal memories are a thing of course, but there are multiple closed spots that I feel were inherently very good and have not properly been replaced in my area.