Red Lobster closes more locations.
The seafood restaurant chain, which filed for bankruptcy in May, announced in a bankruptcy filing on Thursday that it planned to terminate 23 of its leases by Saturday.
Red Lobster said in the statement that the company continues to review and identify leases that are likely to continue to result in losses. The new closures are in addition to those previously announced.
The 23 locations that will be closed are located in:
- 8407 W. Markham St., Little Rock, Arkansas
- 1521 S. Yuma Palms Parkway, Yuma, Arizona
- 8703 Murray Drive, La Mesa, California
- 4925 N. Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs, Colorado
- 326 Miracle Strip Parkway SW, Fort Walton Beach, Florida
- 5110 N. Ninth Ave., Pensacola, Florida
- 8909 US Highway 19. Port Richey, Florida
- 6550 Tara Blvd., Jonesboro, Georgia
- 4353 Franklin St., Michigan City, Indiana
- 1604 N. State Road, Route 50, Bourbonnais, Illinois
- 902 Commons Drive, Geneva, Illinois
- 4625 N. Sterling Ave., Peoria, Illinois
- 8900 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley, Minnesota
- 12515 Elm Creek Blvd., North, Maple Grove, Minnesota
- 2381 Maplewood Commons Drive, Maplewood, Missouri
- 304 A Western Blvd., Jacksonville, North Carolina
- 925 Hunts Point Avenue, Bronx, New York
- 750 Upper Glen St., Queensbury, New York
- 17227 Southpark Center, Strongsville, Ohio
- 555 S. Van Dorn St., Alexandria, Virginia
- 4415 S. Laburnum Ave., Richmond, Virginia
- 709 Independence Blvd., Virginia Beach, Virginia
- 1270 Knox Abbot Drive, Cayce, South Carolina
Red Lobster operates over 530 restaurants, primarily in the United States and Canada, and employs nearly 36,000 people.
According to CNN, Red Lobster is in the process of selling itself to Fortress Credit Corp., a lender with experience in restaurant management that also owns Krystal, Logan’s Roadhouse and J. Alexander’s.
