(C)urveballs kept coming (as they always do in life) from both restaurants, the food truck and the family at home. I was intent on creating a personable, engaged relationship with the customers - a curated experience - at both restaurants and the food truck while also being there for my kids every step of the way. Bluntly, I never figured out how to balance that especially with the travel necessary between the two locations.

The Troy location, at 9 First St., remains open, serving lunch and dinner daily from 11 a.m., as do the food truck and catering wings.

Tim Taney's statement on the closing of Slidin' Dirty's Schenectady location, in the renovated Foster Building at 512 State St.:

You can plan for all events in life, but sometimes no matter how much you plan there is still something you need to learn. We opened up Slidin' Dirty with the best of intentions in Schenectady. I even had visions of franchising one day and eventually making this a national brand, but I hadn't yet learned the lessons of how difficult that would be.

When we opened the doors three summers ago we were packed wall to wall and we quite frankly were not ready. We did not perform to our capabilities and felt like we missed out on our chance at a good first impression. As we tried to right the ship, curveballs kept coming (as they always do in life) from both restaurants, the food truck and the family at home. I was intent on creating a personable, engaged relationship with the customers- a curated experience- at both restaurants and the food truck while also being there for my kids every step of the way. Bluntly, I never figured out how to balance that especially with the travel necessary between the two locations. It is for those reasons that I reluctantly have made the decision today to close one location and give my full attention to the other. Our flagship restaurant in Troy along with our food truck and catering operation will remain open and I have decided to close the Schenectady shop for good today.

The location is great. The restaurant remains a stunning place. I'm certain someone will make a great run of it at 512 State Street. The space is a remarkable turn key and is ready to go. The team I leave behind is composed of some of the most amazing and wonderful people I've ever worked with. Saying goodbye to them today is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my professional career. Words can't describe the gratitude I have for their efforts through these years. I'm a better man for having known them and any new tenant would be crazy not to scoop them up. We've been good stewards of this space. Schenectady is a great place to do business. This decision has nothing to do with the location but rather the lessons I needed to learn.

I'm a better business person today than I ever have been. The challenges of the last two years have brought renewed energy to trying to figure out how to best accomplish what it is I love and want to do. I still have those visions of growth and expansion but now a little more knowledge on how to do that the right way. I am excited to go home to Slidin' Dirty Troy and work on growing this business from where it started. I am sad it did not work in Schenectady and I hope one day Slidin' Dirty can return to Schenectady, a city I have fallen in love with. Sometimes it happens in life that we need to hit the reset button, dust ourselves off and get back to work armed with the lessons of our past. That's what I plan to do and I look forward to trying to help a new person in this amazing location.