One of Uptown Oakland’s more popular lunch options is closing down, and the owner blames ever-spiraling costs for small business owners.

Oakland entrepreneur Lexi Filipello announced on Facebook that she is closing down her DIY everything sandwich shop Stag’s Lunchette effective Aug. 1 after four years in business on 17th Street. Filipello, who also operates local watering holes Bar Dogwood, Darling’s Elixirs, and The Lodge, cited increased food and labor expenses as the reason for calling it quits.

“I just don’t want to sacrifice quality in order to succeed, and that’s what was going to have to happen,” she said when reached by phone. “It’s just really hard to be organic and use free-range products with all these costs going up. People in the industry kept telling me, ‘I don’t know how are you putting out dinner quality food at lunch prices,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know either.’ I think if I didn’t have these other businesses, I would have closed a long time ago.”

The good news: She’ll continue to be offering boxed and corporate lunches to go (check out her Facebook for details on that), and she’ll be holding onto the space. What are her plans? Well, all Filipello would say was that it was “pretty rad” and to look out for more details in the coming months.

“I’m pretty bummed but I’m trying to stay optimistic,” she says. “Sometimes in business you have to evolve and shake things up.”

Stag’s Lunchette: 362 17th St., Oakland, (510) 835-7824, stagslunchette.com.