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UPDATED — There’s a new owner of Jack’s North Hi Carryout.

Austin Herron, 25, will run the restaurant. His grandmother purchased the building for $106,000 at auction today.

“She’s kind of my mortgage company,” Herron says, laughing.

Barbara Moore has been running the restaurant since the November death of her husband, Joe, who reopened Jack’s in March 2009.

Moore says the restaurant was her husband’s labor of love — not hers.

Herron has been wanting to own a “burger joint,” he says, and Jack’s seems to fit.

He plans to keep the name, recipes and even the same food vendor.

“You know, my grandfather’s name is Jack, and the name (of the restaurant) is already established. . . . It would be kind of dumb to change it.”

In the majority of the six-decade-old restaurant’s history, there were only two owners.

In recent years, ownership has been less stable.

Herron hopes to change that.

“We’d like to keep it going for another 50 or more years.”