By Molly Snyder Senior Writer Published Jul 23, 2016 at 3:45 PM

Recently, La Perla was sold to new owners (who will soon be announced on OnMilwaukee) and on Saturday, July 16 the restaurant bid its customers adios with a party. 

Many people share the same burning (ahem) question: where is the mechanical pepper?

"Right now, it's in storage," says La Perla co-owner, JoAnne Anton. "But we're thinking ..."

Where would you like to see the La Perla pepper someday? I'm hoping for my living room but have doubts about that actually happening.


Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.

Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.