Layton icon is moving to make way for freeway

LAYTON (Deseret News) — It's been years since John Sill first heard that the south Layton freeway interchange could take his restaurant.

But once the Utah Department of Transportation gave him notice he would need to vacate the property on the south end of Main Street where his family has owned land for 150 years, he got moving.

Sill, the owner of Sill's Cafe, has found a new location to move the local eatery where he worked as a boy.

Sill's Cafe will have a new home starting in November at 374 E. Gentile St., across the parking lot from Burger Stop.

Sill said he began scouting new locations for the cafe about 18 months ago, when UDOT's plans to create a full I-15 interchange were firming up.

He found the former Pizza Hut building nearby, which suits him because he didn't want to move far. Some of Sill's employees walk to work.

"They will still be close enough to be able to do that, too," he said.

Breann Close, of Layton, one of Sill's servers, said she wasn't worried about Sill closing the cafe. But Close was nervous that the restaurant could lose some of its regulars, which include the Coffee Gang, a group of retired men who visit the cafe three times a day.

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