Thankfully I've not been in that sort of position, but my family was coming back from Thanksgiving vacation this last year. When we got back into town we went to the Perkins restaurant near my place. It was ~6:45 or so, we ate and left by about 7:45. The next day we read in the paper that all the employees had been called in for a meeting at around 8 to learn that the place was closing effective the next day (after having been assured that they were going to remain open). Turns out the new owners decided to close down the Fort Collins and Loveland locations and keep the Greeley location.

Weird to think that I was among their last customers. Sucks that these people were out of work just before Christmas.