STOCKTON, Calif. - News10 visited Payter's Grill in Stockton Friday morning for the latest installment of the Breakfast in Your Neighborhood series.

Dan Elliott and Tim Daly were joined by Michael Fitzgerald of the Stockton Record who provided an extremely candid interview on the state of Stockton and Mayor Anthony Silva's plans to turn around a city in crisis.

Silva, who was scheduled to join Elliott and Daly, did not show up to provide a response to Fitzgerald's comments.

News10 thanks owner Peter and the entire staff at Payter's Grill for the hospitality and fine food.

The next Breakfast in Your Neighborhood will be in Stockton on Friday, May 3. Go to News10.net to vote for 1 of 3 possible locations!

SACRAMENTO - Recent statistics are showing a decline in the number of new, small businesses in the United States. 

Some economists believe one reason fewer small businesses are opening up shop comes down to the fact that potential entrepreneurs are capitalizing on an improving job market, choosing to join the general workforce rather than venturing out on their own.

According to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were an estimated 514,000 new business owners per month in the U.S in 2012. That number is down from 543,000 per month in 2011, and 565,000 in 2010 which was the peak of the recession.

In regards to Sacramento specifically, the city recently made a list of the most unfriendly cities for small businesses, due in part to high tax rates.

STOCKTON, CA - Call it an armed robbery or a kidnapping, but a man with a truck and a gun took the Yum Yum Donuts Yum Yum lion at 5 a.m. Thursday.

The robot/lion is a metal sculpture that serves as a landmark and mascot for the Stockton business.

The manager at Yum Yum Donuts on Wilson Way said his employee and a customer tried to stop the man from stealing the metal lion statute, but the robber pointed a gun at them.

"I don't know why," said Manager Gilbert Herrera. "I guess they're going to sell it."

Herrera said he paid a San Diego sculptor $1,500 for the two robots. They're just made of scrap metal, but they're pretty special to Yum Yum customers.

"Little kids like to take pictures with it and adults take pictures with the robot, too," said Herrera.