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TGI Fridays closed over 30 restaurants in 2020 In 2020, the restaurant chain announced the closure of 34 restaurants across the country, citing a decline in sales in 2019.
The chain lost at least 15 restaurants between late 2019 and September 2020, according to Restaurant Business. Related: The Most Cringe-Worthy Commercials of All Time Ron W./yelp.com
Wimpy Grills – founded in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1934; eventually grew to 25 locations within the United States and 1,500 outside of the U.S.; its international locations were eventually sold to J. Lyons and Co. in the United Kingdom, which remains open while all of the American locations eventually closed by 1978 [14] [15] [16] [17]
Howard Johnson's was the largest restaurant chain in the U.S. throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with more than 1,000 combined company-owned and franchised outlets. [2] Today, the chain is defunct—after dwindling down to one location, the last Howard Johnson's restaurant (in Lake George, New York) closed in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
Big Bear Stores – Columbus, Ohio based chain; stores closed or sold to Kroger by 2004. Unrelated chain in San Diego with same name sold to Fleming Companies and Albertsons in 1994; BI-LO – dissolved in 2021; Bohack; Bottom Dollar Food – acquired by Aldi 2015; Boys Markets – converted to Ralphs or Food 4 Less in 1994 [112] Bruno's
Photo: Shutterstock. Design: Eat This, Not That!A spate of closures swept the restaurant industry in 2023 as struggling chains shuttered dozens or even hundreds of locations.Using data from the ...
Signs on door of a Graeter's ice cream parlor in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati during government-mandated closings. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the United States restaurant industry via government closures, resulting in layoffs of workers and loss of income for restaurants and owners and threatening the survival of independent restaurants as a category.
The restaurant's tight kitchen and dining room made it especially tough to stay open during the pandemic, and it closed in June 2020. Chris C./Yelp Washington, D.C.