This beloved catering chain secretly clogged 150 locations

This classic American chain closed about 30% of its total locations - and many of them permanently.


A hard statistics: almostA five restaurants will close because of the coronavirus pandemicAccording to a UBS note published in April. Only three weeks in closing, the National Restaurant Association reported that3 million jobs had already been lost and 15% of the restaurants closed permanently. Although the small restaurants of Mom and Pop have been affected the most difficult national restaurant chains, not even massive in Canada have been spared.

DozenBeloved catering chains collectively closed more than 600 locations, with many of them had todeclare bankruptcy. The truth of the question is that coronavirus was a nail in the coffin of many catering chains, which have narrowed for years. One of the most important and beloved of these is ruby ​​on Tuesday. According toRestaurant BusinessThe casual restoration chain fenced 150 locations during the pandemic - and many will not be reopened.

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Ruby Tuesday was founded in 1972 as a concept of American food restoration, serving classics such as ribs, steaks, pasta and burgers. Maybe one of its most emblematic menu items is their salad bar, which, without surprise, hasclosed indefinitely because of COVID-19. The chain has sprinkled locations across the country outside the west coast.

In his heyday, Ruby TuesdayPlaces operated or franchised 840, but this number has slowly decreased to 470 restaurants in the early 2020. Over the past decade, Ruby Tuesday has had difficulty the "weak market for casual restaurants and failed for efforts to mount the chain in the past" , according toRestaurant Business.

Brought by coronavirus, Aziz Hashim, founder and partner Director of the owner of Ruby Tuesday owner NRD-Capital, saidRestaurant Business That the number of chain restaurants currently operates is between 270 and 300. Some restaurants will slowly begin to reopen, up to 180 locations are temporarily clogged. (Speaking of, if you intend to dinner in a newly reopened restaurant, you must read these7 mistakes that you should not do in a reopened restaurant.)

Hashim said the chain will pass through a slaughter process, closing the lowest units - but the total of the final on the permanent number of closures has not yet been determined.

Whatever the number is completed, one thing is one thing for some: Ruby Tuesday will be a smaller chain that has been decades at the end of this pandemic. These are not just restaurants that disappear from Covid-19. here is6 things you used to see in chain restaurants that can leave.

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