Hazel’s Nook, the beloved Gulf Shores breakfast spot that is closing next week after 67 years, won’t sit empty for long.

The owners of Duck’s Diner in neighboring Orange Beach will open a second location of their restaurant in the Hazel’s space as early as next Wednesday, July 17.

Richard Schwartz, who has owned Hazel’s Nook since 1980, told AL.com on Thursday that the iconic café will serve its last customers on Monday, when he is scheduled to close on the sale of the building to Duck’s Diner co-owner Garrett Spence.

Spence told AL.com he will be ready to move in and open soon after the sale goes through.

“If we close the deal on Monday and he (Schwartz) gets his stuff out and we get the renovations done on Tuesday, I hope to be open by Wednesday,” Spence said.

He said the new location will be called Duck’s Diner Gulf Shores.

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Duck’s Diner — which, like Hazel’s, is open for breakfast and lunch only — began in 2003 in Orange Beach, and Spence’s mother, Michelle Deerman, bought the business in 2014. Spence joined her as a co-owner after graduating from Troy University a few months later.

Spence said he has been looking for a second location for Duck’s Diner for almost two years.

After he heard that Schwartz might be making some changes at Hazel’s and was planning to close it to open another location of his Doc’s Seafood Shack there, Spence said he reached out to Schwartz to see if he would be interested in selling the property instead.

Schwartz told him yes.

“The fact that it’s been a breakfast and lunch place for the last 50, 60 years – that was exactly what we were looking for,” Spence said. “It’s the exact hours we do and the same business model.”

Unlike Hazel’s, though, Duck’s Diner won’t have a breakfast buffet and will sell alcohol, including mimosas, bloody marys and Irish coffee. A 16-foot bar will replace the buffet.

“Shortly after we close on the restaurant, we should have our liquor license pretty soon,” Spence said.

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The Duck’s Diner breakfast menu, which is available all day, includes omelets, pancakes, country ham, steak and eggs, corned beef hash and a breakfast burrito, as well as the restaurant’s signature banana-stuffed French toast with butter pecan sauce.

The lunch menu features burgers, po’ boys, wraps, chicken tenders, a ribeye steak and a Rueben sandwich, along with another Duck’s Diner specialty, Gouda cheese grit cakes topped with grilled shrimp, grilled tomatoes and a Creole sauce.

Although the old building will soon have new owners and a new name, Spence said he wants to honor the Hazel’s tradition and its longtime owner.

“I really want to do right by Richard (Schwartz),” Spence said. “So I take that into account with all the decisions we make regarding it.

“He didn’t want to sell it to just anybody,” Spence added. “I was just able to go over there and get my foot in the door and tell him who I was and what I wanted to do. And he said that I remind him of himself at a younger age.”

Spence will be the owner of the building, and he and his mother will be co-owners of the restaurant.

Duck’s Diner Gulf Shores will be at 120 East Fort Morgan Road in Gulf Shores. Hours will be 7 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. For more information, go here.