By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM -- The Village Diner, in the Market Square Mall at the end of Depot Street, will remain open for dinner Mondays and Thursdays starting April 30.

Owners Denise LaBar and Jarrod Davis have served breakfast and lunch every day since they bought the diner in November 2012. It has been open each day from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Now on Mondays and Thursdays the diner will remain open until 8 p.m.

LaBar, a Nicholville native and St. Lawrence University graduate, and Davis, a graduate of RPI from the Kingston area, said they “thought it was the right time to begin to offer customers the opportunity to have their evening meal at the diner a few nights a week as well.”

In addition to the two weeknights, they plan to serve dinners over the two graduation weekends next month, Clarkson University’s May 12 and 13 and SUNY Potsdam’s May 19 and 20.

Dinner specials will include specialty salads, appetizers, home-style entrees, two homemade soups every day and assorted homemade desserts. Takeout and kids’ menus will also be available. Breakfast items will be served all day.

Plans are also in place to offer dinner service not just on graduation weekends but also for some select holidays during 2018.

If turnout is good, LaBar and Davis said, they might expand the schedule for more weekdays evenings or even weekends at some point, “but not just yet,” they said. “We want to take our time and get it right.”

LaBar and Davis said they are grateful to the community for giving them “the recommendation and opportunity to expand both the Village Diner’s hours, as well as the menu, and hope that it will be a success.”