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Flooding from a nearby water main break caused extensive damage to Saboroso Brazilian Steakhouse, forcing the restaurant to close and putting more than 40 people out of work.

Water seeped into the building on Eighth Street East overnight on Jan. 21 and by the time the flooding was discovered much of the restaurant was under one to two inches of dirty, muddy water. The restaurant is expected to be closed for at least three months.

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General manager Carla Finnson told the StarPhoenix there will be a lot of meetings with the owners to decide Saboroso’s future.

“We have no idea what the timeline is yet for reopening. Generally what I’ve heard in a situation like that is get the information for how long it’s going to take and times it by two,” she said.

Reconstruction of the restaurant is one consideration; whether the staff displaced by the closure will return when it reopens is another.

“There isn’t another place like Saboroso in Saskatchewan, there is no other rodizio restaurant, so there’s a lot of training that goes on particularly in the kitchen and at the front of the house with our staff to have the proper knowledge of what they are doing,” Finnson said.