There used to be 22, but Larsen could not afford the payroll, unemployment and workman’s compensation he had to pay for the extra employees that he needed to sell the tickets. Rosie died in May, and Larsen runs the cafe with 14 employees. Larsen’s mother, Rosie Larsen, founded the restaurant in 1984, and rebuilt Rosie’s Den with her family in 2013 after it burned to the ground from an electrical fire two years earlier. “Unless there’s a jackpot, lottery tickets are a break-even at best,” Larsen said, referring to the costs of selling and taxes. Larsen has been in poor health for the last few years and is blind, but he was working 15 hours each day at the restaurant. He said the cafe is downsizing and cutting out lottery sales because it’s no longer financially feasible. “I just can’t do it anymore, it’s not worth it,” Rosie’s Den owner Brad Larsen said. The restaurant and bar, a little more than 60 miles southeast of Las Vegas, right along U.S. There are still three other places within a mile of Rosie’s Den where lottery tickets are sold, including a Chevron station next door to Rosie’s, a nearby Texaco station and the Arizona Last Stop. Rosie’s Den, a White Hills, Arizona, bar and restaurant serving truckers, tourists and Nevadans looking to win big, has stopped selling lottery tickets. Debbie Diamon sells lottery tickets at Rosie's Den cafe in White Hills, Ariz., Tuesday, Dec.
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