Company-Owned Bennigan's, Steak & Ale Close

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Source: Houston Chronicle

undreds of Bennigan's and Steak & Ale restaurants across the country will not open today.

Phones went unanswered this morning at several Houston locations and others had been disconnected.

Plano-based MetroMedia Restaurant Group confirmed that its subsidiary, S&A Restaurant Corp., has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. All corporate locations of its well-known storefronts, including Bennigan's, Steak & Ale and Tavern, will be shuttered for good.

Company spokeswoman Leah Templeton said franchised locations should not be affected, and it could not be determined immediately which of the Houston-area's 11 Bennigan's and six Steak & Ale locations will remain open.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5913146.html

[Renew Deal]

1. That's sad to hear.

There's one near me. I wonder if it will close.

[Ian David]

2. Why couldn't it have been Olive Garden or Cracker Barrel instead? n/t

[KatyaR]

10. Olive Garden can't close--

what would we have to mock?

[melm00se]

3. bennigans

has played the "open/close/open/close/open/close" shuffle with all their locations here.

Cracker Barrel? I like Cracker Barrel.

[madaboutharry]

4. Cracker Barrel had to get sued to get them

to stop firing gay empoloyees.

[ret5hd]

5. and to start seating black customers...

if i recall correctly.

[Kweli4Real]

7. They still discriminate against ...

Gays and African-Americans.

Cracker Barrels commitment to discriminating against gays is such that their refused to build in the City of Tucson because of the city's gay anti-discrimination ordinance. Instead, they built in the unincorporated county.

[Raster]

8. Processed cheese foodstuffs and meat products so stuffed with nitrates they glow in the dark...

yum! Fuck slacker barrel and their racist, sexist, homophobic practices.

[maxsolomon]

6. Acceptable, as long as Flingers & Tchotchkie's stay open!

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/office

[Lautremont]

9. That was my first thought!

There are going to be lonely piles of abandoned flair in strip-mall parking lots throughout Texas.