At one time, the Tulsa area had a number of Camille’s locations, but that number will be down to one (9637 Riverside Parkway) when Chilcoat closes her store.

“I don’t know about anyone else, but from 11:30 to 2 we are full every day,” she said. “We get about 100 call-ins a day, and we do a lot of catering.”

Chilcoat said the fact that her children, Cooper, 11, and Eden, 9, are getting older played a part in her decision.

“They are the third generation of my family to attend Carnegie Elementary School,” she said. “It has been so convenient for me to drop them off at school, be at the restaurant a minute later, and be off in time to pick them up after school.

“They have become very helpful around the store. They can run the register, fix computer problems, answer the phone. They will miss it, too.”

Chilcoat’s grandfather, the late Ramon King, developed the original shopping center, then called Holiday Hills, some six decades ago and was an early partner in Shotgun Sam’s Pizza Palace.

“My first job was at Shotgun Sam’s at 51st and Yale, where Delta Cafe is now, and my second job was at Sipes here in the shopping center,” Chilcoat said.