Eleven other Minnesota locations have closed this year amid a national restructuring by the chain's parent company.Īn Old Country Buffet also remains in operation in Eau Claire, Wis. The closures of those two locations leave just one Old Country Buffet operating in Minnesota, in Burnsville, according to the chain's website.
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The Old Country Buffet location in Mankato also closed Tuesday, the Mankato Free Press reported. "We are anticipating that this location will not be vacant for long given its prominent location at Miller Hill," mall general manager Katie Kaz said. Old Country Buffet occupied a highly visible spot at Miller Hill Mall, facing Miller Trunk Highway. "Thank you for your business and we hope to serve you at another location very soon," the sign read, while also instructing employees to collect their final paycheck during specified hours Tuesday afternoon. The Old Country Buffet restaurant at Duluth's Miller Hill Mall closed Tuesday along with another in Minnesota, the latest in dozens of closures in the struggling chain in recent months.Ĭlosure signs were posted at the all-you-can-eat restaurant in Duluth, which had been open for more than 25 years. Reach her at 73 or email her at Follow her on Twitter at. He said he’s unsure if the space will be leased to one tenant or subdivided. He added: “It will be a good tenant and a better tenant than the one that left I think the concept was tired and old.” “It’s one of the more desirable spaces in our portfolio I think it will be leased in the next 30 to 60 days.” “Even before they closed the door behind them, there has been lots of activity for that space and plenty of tenants who want to get in the Ann Arbor market,” he said. Last week, the Papa Romano's pizza franchise in the center also closed. “It came right out of the blue,” he said.Īlthough the closing creates a 9,000-square-foot vacancy in the shopping center, Goldberg said he isn’t concerned about the now empty space.
Goldberg said he was given no warning of the company’s filing until he received a notice on Thursday. One other Michigan restaurant, located in Southgate, closed over the weekend. The 81 store closings represent about 16 percent of the company’s 494 restaurants in 38 states.
“The decision to close these underperforming restaurants, though difficult, resulted from a comprehensive, store-by-store analysis of financial performance, occupancy costs, market conditions and the long-term strategy of our reorganized restaurant portfolio,” said CEO Mike Andrews in the release.īuffets also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early 2008, when it closed 52 restaurants and laid off 2,300 employees. Buffets hopes to complete the process and exit Chapter 11 within about six months. The restructuring plan will eliminate the company’s outstanding debt of about $245 million, as well as annual interest payments of more than $30 million, according to the release. Photo by Dwight Burdette via Wikipedia Tom Goldberg, an owner of the Cranbrook Village shopping center, which is anchored by Whole Foods Market, confirmed that the Ann Arbor restaurant closed over the weekend in what he calls a “middle of the night kind of thing.” The Old Country Buffet in the Cranbrook Village shopping center in Ann Arbor closed last weekend.
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