When French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1849 penned “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” – the more things change, the more they stay the same – he couldn’t know the embodiment would be in the changing of guard at The Cheese Shoppe in Surf City.

“(You) don’t fix what’s not broken,” said Jaime Ryan, who along with his wife, Angela, purchased the four decades-old shop in the fall. “We’re trying to minimize changes.”