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TGI Fridays Files For Bankruptcy Weeks After Sudden Closures Of At Least 12 Restaurants TGI Fridays Files For Bankruptcy Weeks After Sudden Closures Of At Least 12 Restaurants
TGI Fridays Files For Bankruptcy Weeks After Sudden Closures Of At Least 12 Restaurants Casual dining chain TGI Fridays has filed for bankruptcy several weeks after at least 12 of its restaurants suddenly closed. The company filed the Chapter 11 petition on Saturday, Nov. 2, in Texas, near its Dallas headquarters. Founded in New York City in 1965, TGI Fridays has 95 restaurants in the US, 39 of which the company owns and operates. The other 56 are independent franchises not involved in the bankruptcy petition. The company said that all those locations will remain open. According to the TGI Fridays website and other reports, the following locations are now listed as permanent…

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by Joe Lombardi
Business
Denny's To Close 150 Restaurants Denny's To Close 150 Restaurants
Denny's To Close 150 Restaurants Restaurant chain Denny's plans to shut down as many as 150 of its locations. The company said half of the underperforming outlets will close by the end of the calendar year and the others will go out of business in 2025. Specific restaurants slated for closure have not yet been announced. In announcing the move, Denny's said customers have been ordering from restaurants less often. In addition to the closures, Denny’s will trim the number of items on its menu from 97 to 46 and no longer require outlets to be open 24/7, according to a CNN report. Founded in 1954 in California as Dann…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
School Bus Smashes Through The Chateau Restaurant In Norwood School Bus Smashes Through The Chateau Restaurant In Norwood
School Bus Smashes Through The Chateau Restaurant In Norwood Crews were on the scene where a school bus smashed through the front of a restaurant in Norwood, authorities said.  Police responded to for a vehicle into building at The Chateau Restaurant, located at 404 Boston-Providence Turnpike, around 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, Norwood Police said on Facebook.  At approximately 2200 hours, NPD units responded to 404 Boston-Providence Highway, The Chateau, for a vehicle into a... Posted by Norwood Police Department on Saturday, July 16, 2022 Upon arrival, officers found the bus had driven up the front steps of the restaurant and smashed through…

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by David Cifarelli
Police & Fire
Fire Breaks Out At Wendy's In Western Mass Fire Breaks Out At Wendy's In Western Mass
Fire Breaks Out At Wendy's In Western Mass A cleaning crew working at a Western Massachusetts Wendy’s restaurant accidentally started a fire at the eatery, officials said. Crews from the Pittsfield Fire Department responded to Wendy’s at 12:15 a.m. on Monday, June 28, where there was a fire reported in the kitchen of the Hubbard Avenue restaurant. Officials said that firefighters found a small fire in the kitchen that was quickly extinguished. The fire broke out when the cleaning crew was moving a gas-fed stove, at which point flames erupted from behind the vessel. Further investigation by Berkshire Gas found that there was a smal…

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by Zak Failla
News
Co-Owner Of Pepe's Pizza, Ranked No. 1 In America, Dies Co-Owner Of Pepe's Pizza, Ranked No. 1 In America, Dies
Co-Owner Of Pepe's Pizza, Ranked No. 1 In America, Dies A co-owner of Frank Pepe's, ranked No. 1 on Daily Meal's list of the 101 best pizzerias in America each of the last three years, has died. Gary Bimonte died on Wednesday, April 7.  Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, which has 12 locations in the Northeast (in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island), announced his death on the Facebook page of its flagship New Haven location and said the New Haven location would be closed Thursday, April 8. Neither the circumstances surrounding his death nor his age have been immediately released. On its website, the company posted a stat…

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by Joe Lombardi