The diner at 2980 N. Andrews Ave. will reopen its doors Thursday, June 4, under business partners Kahn Bashir and Bob De Benedictis, who also operate drag-tastic supper nightclub Lips, country-western club Scandals Saloon and Tropics Grille.

Beyond a soup-to-nuts restaurant cleaning, nothing will change about Andrews Diner or its menu, says Bashir, who signed a five-year lease on the building in May.

“It’s a smaller place and easy to run, so I thought, ‘Why not take it over?’ ” says Bashir, adding that he rehired 60% of the diner’s former cooks and servers. “Whatever the last owners did there was great. We’re going to keep doing the same stuff.”

Bashir bought the diner from husband-and-wife owners Angelo and Gerri Karaliolios, who retired when Andrews Diner shut down at the end of April. The Karaliolioses had operated the diner since 1991, steering in a healthy mix of older snowbirds and LGBT folks. In 2016, renovation expert Ty Pennington and chef Amanda Freitag of Food Network’s “American Diner Revival” gave the diner a facelift, replacing its wood-paneled walls with fresh paint and palm-tree wallpaper.

In April, Angelo told the Sun Sentinel that he lamented closing in the middle of a pandemic, isolated from longtime customers. “Anyone who comes in now will have a hard time running the restaurant, especially with the coronavirus,” Angelo said at the time.

“I dined there four or five times in the past, and every time I went half the crowds were from Scandals and Tropics,” Bashir says. “It was kismet.”