From left, Linda McCarren, owner of the Cafe Main property, Brittany Braden, manager of Upper Crust Shop, and Deborah Braden and her husband and Upper Crust owner Steve Braden are involved in the relocation of the Upper Crust Shop to the site being vacated by Cafe Main.

The business shake-up of Butler's Main Street continues with the announcement that Upper Crust Shop, a sandwich shop, will move into a nearby space that is being vacated by Cafe Main.

Cafe Main will lock its doors for the last time Dec. 24, and in its place, Upper Crust will move out of its basement location and into the new space in the new year, Upper Crust owner Steve Braden confirmed.

The soon-to-closed Cafe Main at 235 S. Main St. was purchased a decade ago by Linda McCarren, who also owns the Butler Beauty School next door. The cafe has been open for 16 years. New owner Braden said he will take his menu from the underground spot into the new location, and plans to also add a few Cafe Main favorites to the menu.

“Our restaurants always complemented each other. Most of our customers go between the two places, so now we can move in with no reservations,” Braden said.

“The fact that Linda's place was closing at the same time as us, it was a logical spot for us to move. And it's a bigger space.”

Braden said the decision to move was spurred by a new landlord. Upper Crust's current location is in the basement below A.B. Mann, which will close soon. The next-door neighbors of A.B. Mann, Gilliland Vanasdale Sinatra Law Office, will soon expand its firm's space by purchasing the A.B. Mann building.

The deal is under agreement and will close by the end of the year, Jennifer Gilliland Vanasdale previously told the Eagle.

With that change of ownership, Braden said that Gilliland Vanasdale Sinatra Law Office wanted him to move into the A.B. Mann eyeglass company space. Braden said the new owners were uncomfortable with the basement restaurant not being compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“We just want to get moved in and get settled in, and not do that whole nine yards of construction and all that,” Braden said.

With the Cafe Main space, Braden said all of the equipment and necessities are in place, making for a smoother transition.

He noted that while the new place will cost more in rent, he does not plan on raising the menu's prices.