Anyone have a restaurant in their area close down and was surprised to learn it was no longer open for business?

The Outback Steakhouse closed down. That surprised me.

Just wondering.

Sadly rather often in NYC esp. Manhattan. Commercial rents are often prohibitive for businesses.

The mall forced the only McDonalds in our town out of business nine years ago. McDonalds had been there for ten years, until they reached the end of their contract. Then the mall raised their rent so much, so the McDonalds had to close down. I wonder if anybody understood what happened and why. :confused:

The chinese restaurant near me New China, closed at the start of this year without any explanation.

The mall forced the only McDonalds in our town out of business nine years ago. McDonalds had been there for ten years, until they reached the end of their contract. Then the mall raised their rent so much, so the McDonalds had to close down. I wonder if anybody understood what happened and why. :confused:

Yeah...awhile back, the McDonald's in Tower City closed and I dunno why...

We had a McDonalds nearby that became a hardware store.

Make up your own joke.

A Marie Callendar's closed down one afternoon by me in Federal Way several years ago suddenly--right in the middle of the dinner hour!!! :eek: :confused:

A Frisch's Big Boy in 2009. A Hungry Howie's a few years before that. A Pizza Hut.

Many in the last few years, unfortunately.

In my town alone, we've seen a family restaurant featuring Italian food, a pizza place, a Pizza Hut, and others close. This area is not doing well economically, and most folks don't have the money to dine out a lot. It's sad; you just get to enjoy a place and then it's gone.

And we also had a restaurant near the main square in town, where I used to eat pasta and pizza. Then a couple of ladies from the town council chearfully announced in the local newspaper, that they had decided to close it for no good reason at all. You can only imagine how angry I became, when I saw these hags smiling at the prospect of forcing one of my regular hang-outs out of business. The poor man who had run the restaurant trashed the place before he had to leave it and just disappeared (I wonder if they ever found him).

It is weird too that both the McDonald's and this other restaurant were doing really well, with a lot of happy customers. So it was not even about them not making enough money to remain in business. But in both cases, people with power wanted them gone for some reason and crushed them. :mad:

The restaurant business is a rough one. The competition is CUT THROAT. Of every 10 restaurants that open nine of them will close down within a year. I first visited Daytona Beach, Florida in 1965. Of all the restaurants we ate at on that trip NONE of them are open today. :rip:

It is very hard to find any good restaurants in my town and the only places my town has are a Burger King a McDonald's a Taco Bell and two Subways and it seems that every time my town opens a restaurant it's a huge hit and then a few years pass and then it closes for good. Take for example my town has two Chinese restaurants and the Chinese restaurant I currently like to eat at had really good Chinese food when it first opened but then it changed chefs and the food wasn't as great anymore and surprisingly the restaurant is still open and going strong. Mexican restaurants are also scarce in my town as well and when I moved to my town in 2004 Mom and I used to visit a Mexican restaurant that had really good food and good burritos but then the restaurant closed for a few years and then reopened with a different name and new ownership and the food had changed it's recipe. But I do wish that I had a Domino's Pizza or a Pizza Hut or even a Long John Silver's in my town because that would give me a variety of food choices to choose from
Bestie

ones i remember
country rest rants
back yard burgers
griffiths hot dog fast food
schlotzsky'
poor folks

One of my favorite restaurants, recently closed. A mom and pop, restaurant
that had been in existence for at least 30 years. They were known for their
dinner plate size Rubens! End of an era . . . as far as Rubens go!

I imagine it's not suddenly to the people that own it. Restaurants rarely give advanced notice that they are going to close.

An Acapulco restaurant recently closed, also a Sizzler and a Burger King

In the Georgetown area of Seattle, a McDonald's, Taco Time, and an Arby's all closed down to supposedly make way for a treatment plant for the very polluted Duwamish River. I've heard from a co-worker who lives near there that this won't be a plant that goes up but in fact some yuppie condos that will ruin the charm of this area.

I used to eat at any one of these restaurants during lunch time several years ago. :( I'll miss them.

I used to have three Sizzler restaurants near me in the 80's to the 90's but the Sizzler that was close to me closed and became a Coco's Restaurant and it also closed and the former building where it used to be is now a Verizon Wireless store. Another restaurant chain that was huge where I live that also closed was Marie Callender's and my mom used to LOVE their lemon pies and I had four of them but the Marie Callender's near me closed when Famous Dave's decided to move in to their building and it's a shame that Marie Callender's restaurants went broke because they were known for awesome food and the best chocolate chip cookies that they had in their bakery. But when Marie Callender died in 1995 the restaurant still was awesome in keeping Marie Callender's spirit alive in the food and at least Marie Callender's still has it's frozen food line that is still great as well
Bestie

Hi Bestie! Do you have any in and out restaurants in your area? We have one place here called Fosters Freeze, do you have one? What is your favorite Mexican fast food place?
DTK

Many Quaker Steak and Lube restaurants closed and one was in Lakewood that I liked!

Another is Cleveland's Hard Rock Cafe...it was a great location and had the best restaurant coleslaw I ever tasted!

Friendlys restaurant has been replaced by Chick Fil A here in Altoona Pa

ones didn't last long:
griffers it was an hot dog place!! they opened all over the place then they went down hill! then they only had hot dogs & chips they didn't start severing nothing unitl lunch time!! then they weren't open in the night time!! i think they should have chicken hambugers & fires or union rings!!
back yard burger me my mom & dad couldn't believe they closed we loved there hambugers & there fires!! my dad read were they were going to bring them back but i hadn't heard any thing about them coming back in several years!!
central park i think they got high there is one in hixson!!
schlotzsky's its an sub sandwhich / pizza shop!! we still got one in dalton!!
long johns slivers it closed it ok rest rant its one place you never think about going to!! if we wont fish we would just go to captian Ds!!
quiznos it was sub sand which shop! then they went out business we still got one in cleveland TN
blimps they were also sub sand which shop!! but there subs was kind of cold but you could get them toasted but i think that subway hurt there business!!
fundos it was like hamburger place! it was ok you had to build your own hamburger we had one in dalton for couple years then it went out of business!!

There was a Wendy's near my house, and it burned down in January 2014. I'll find the pics I took of it and post them in the next few days.

A pizza place near me closed down,it was probably the BEST thin pizza I ever had!!

I really do prefer thick.....

I received an O'Charley's gift card for Christmas last year so I decided to take my sister out to dinner only to discover that the location nearest me had closed last month. Very disappointing, as the only other location is quite a distance away. :(

Shoney's on North Second St. closed and is up for sale. But the one out by the interstate is still open.

Unfortunately now more than ever due to the pandemic. Not just restaurants but a lot of businesses closed and never reopened during the shutdown.

Places that were there for 100 years and more. Some have since reopened as another business but many remain empty.

Bellacinos in Bridgeton just recently closed down unexpectedly