The Japanese steakhouse in the Florida Panhandle where seven customers were poisoned when someone laced their food with narcotics has announced it will be closing its doors permanently.

The owners of embattled Nikko’s Japanese Steakhouse in Pace, Fla., announced the restaurant’s closure in a lengthy Facebook post Friday in which they claimed they were “brutally harassed” by the media and the “power of social media” had been the restaurant’s undoing.

“Today, a family owned and operated business is closed, 20 employees are out of work, all because of the power of social media,” the post read in part.

“We are heartbroken, but were unable to sustain the cost to stay open, when it seemed that every day, a local news outlet wanted to find something else to report on. We have had the news at our place of business, called on our phones and have been harassed at our personal homes, it’s all just been too much.”

On June 9, seven people who had eaten at the Pace, Fla., restaurant ended up in local hospitals, where testing confirmed all seven had ingested a narcotic, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Additionally, an attorney for three of the victims said his clients had each tested positive for methamphetamine after eating at the restaurant.

Sheriff’s investigators would ultimately close the investigation, citing a lack of evidence.

In the wake of the incident, inspectors with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation found 31 health violations over the course of two inspections.