The last Carrows in Ventura County has closed.

The restaurant served its last breakfast orders and slices of pie on or around Tuesday, after more than 30 years of business at 2401 E. Harbor Blvd. in Ventura. A sign taped to the front door this week reads, "Restaurant closed. Sorry."

On Thursday evening, coffee pots, stainless steel sinks and other pieces of equipment sold in an online auction were seen being loaded into a moving van parked behind the restaurant. Successful bidders had until 4 p.m. Friday to pick up items, according to the auction website.

The restaurant had been in business since at least the fall of 1987, when its original full-bar alcohol license was issued. A transfer to a new license dated Dec. 3 is listed as "pending" on the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control website. An unspecified "special hold" was placed on the pending license in February.

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California-based Carrows debuted in 1970. After a series of sales and mergers, it came to share a parent company with the Coco's Bakery & Restaurant chain. According to Restaurant Business, both chains were aquired last fall by Oregon-based Shari's Cafe & Pies.

Attempts to contact Carrows and Shari's for comment were not immediately successful.

According to its website, the Carrows chain currently operates seven restaurants, all of them south of Ventura County.

In April 2015, four of the six Carrows and Coco’s Bakery & Restaurant locations then operating in Ventura County closed in a sudden, pre-Easter massacre caused by a change of corporate ownership.

The former Carrows at 211 W. Ojai Ave. in Ojai has since been divided into two spaces. Cattywampus Crafts opened on one side in May 2016, followed by Beacon Coffee four months later.

Carrows at 1601 N. Oxnard Blvd. in Oxnard reopened in October 2016 as Lalo's Family Restaurant.

In Camarillo, the vacant Coco’s building at 301 E. Daily Drive was demolished in March to make way for a car wash that remains under construction.

In Ventura, the former Coco's at 4095 Telegraph Road is being remodeled for use as a Denny's. A spokesperson told The Star this week that the 24-hour restaurant will mark its grand opening in early October.

Coco's remains open in Simi Valley, at 698 E. Los Angeles Ave. For information, click on https://www.cocosbakery.com.

Lisa McKinnon is a staff writer for The Star. To contact her, send email to lisa.mckinnon@vcstar.com.