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COVID-19 has crushed small businesses at a startling clip, and restaurants have been among the most visible victims. The pandemic hasn't discriminated, either, closing everything from chain ...
Golden Corral. The nation’s most recognizable buffet chain survived COVID-19, but not without some serious damage. As of early April 2021, only about 290 of the chain’s pre-pandemic 490 ...
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.
Specialty Restaurant Group; Steak and Ale; Steve's Ice Cream; Sweet Tomatoes – Founded in San Diego in 1978 and operated as Souplantation in California. Closed all locations temporarily in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but announced in May 2020 that the closure was permanent. One location reopened under new ownership in April 2024 ...
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]
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the restaurant industry. By mid-April of 2020, an estimated 30,000 American restaurants had closed for good and more than 110,000 were expected to shutter by...
Big-name chains have taken notice. With their vast pools of resources and endless data banks, many of these chains have decided it would be better to slim down and close some of their stores in 2021.