Cobb Business Owners Bemoan Loss Of All-Star Game Revenue At Lunch With GOP Congressmen

Gus Tselios, owner of the Marietta Diner, says the loss of this year’s MLB All-Star Game will hurt but is “not the end of the world.”

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Gus Tselios, who owns the busy 1950s-style Marietta Diner, says the special All-Star Game menu he was working up for July will have to stay on the shelf for now.

“It’s not the end of the world. Like I said, we’re going to move on, we’ve been through worse,” said Tselios. “But it’s just a little bit hard – it hurts a little bit because it was going to be a fun week.”

In early April, Major League Baseball announced it was moving the All-Star Game to Denver after Georgia Republicans passed a sweeping overhaul of the state’s election laws.