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Logan's Roadhouse files for bankruptcy; 18 restaurants closing
The Birmingham News ^ | August 8, 2016 | Leada Gore

Posted on 08/14/2016 1:29:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Logan's Roadhouse restaurant chain has filed for bankruptcy.

The filing was made Monday with U.S. bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware. The plan, according to the company is "designed to restructure the company's balance sheet" while providing it with the "capital needed to turnaround operations."

The Nashville, Tennessee-based steakhouse chain best known for its western flair and peanuts on the floor will close 18 restaurants as part of its restructuring. The chain operates 250 locations nationwide, including 23 in Alabama....

(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; bhoeconomy; economy; food; restaurants
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Another one.
1 posted on 08/14/2016 1:29:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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There’s been a Logan’s in York, PA for 10 years. We went there for dinner a few months after their opening. Our order was screwed up like a chinese fire drill. The manager was running around giving out free meals to irate customers. We never went back.


2 posted on 08/14/2016 1:50:31 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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We went to the one in Temecula ten years ago, haven’t been back.

I cringed when I saw the teenaged “chef” squash the meat with his spatula as it cooked on the grill.


3 posted on 08/14/2016 1:55:59 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We eat at our Logan’s often and get good food and usually good service as well! I hope ours doesn’t close!!!!!....


4 posted on 08/14/2016 2:00:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Red Badger

Dittoes here in Johnson City, TN! The steaks are better than Outback.


5 posted on 08/14/2016 2:07:09 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Spktyr

:: steakhouse chain best known for its western flair and peanuts on the floor ::

Well, “reality” insists that “peanut shells” on the floor is framed by my reality (SWMBO) and finds.

Wife and I don’t frequent our local Logan’s (or Texas Roadhouse or Saltgrass) because, well and quite frankly, I can grill the same rib-eye at home. My-own rub and done over both wood and charcoal.

When my DW wonders about going to a local steakhouse, I tell her that I’ll get a steak (her style/cut) and cook it my self with coal-roasted baked russets and corn-on-the-cob.

Child that —right there— is a BBQ steak dinner.


6 posted on 08/14/2016 2:09:09 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: MHGinTN

Their $15.99 meal for two deal is great!......


7 posted on 08/14/2016 2:10:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

You could buy some peanuts and throw the shells all over the floor for “ambience”............


8 posted on 08/14/2016 2:12:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

We try to do this every Friday evening. Play our own music, a few glasses of wine, BBQ a rib-eye, baked potato, salad, then go sit on the couch with the music blaring or turn on a concert from AXS TV! lol


9 posted on 08/14/2016 2:22:52 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: Red Badger

Not a restaurant to visit if you want to carry on conversation, but fun if you’re into the rollicking ambience.


10 posted on 08/14/2016 2:26:33 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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Depends on where we sit. Some tables in front of the bar are quiet...........


11 posted on 08/14/2016 2:29:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As long as Texas Roadhouse isn’t threatened.


12 posted on 08/14/2016 2:29:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sky high beef prices and rampant peanut allergies were too much for this chain.


13 posted on 08/14/2016 2:29:56 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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We used to go but we have a Texas Roadhouse close which we prefer and there’s nothing in particular that stands out. The food is fine but like other places like Outback ans other similiar places there’s nothing I just must have.


14 posted on 08/14/2016 2:53:09 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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A friend promoted Logan’s to me,I have no plans to try it a second time.Overpriced skimpy with poor service.I miss the real family taverns of my younger days.Ones with good food and the beer was just another part of the meal.


15 posted on 08/14/2016 2:53:56 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Wife and I don’t frequent our local Logan’s (or Texas Roadhouse or Saltgrass) because, well and quite frankly, I can grill the same rib-eye at home. My-own rub and done over both wood and charcoal.

We just finished a "steak" dinner I cooked on the stove with cheap $2.97/lb boneless beef ribs. Not melt in your mouth but tender enough. A whole piece, which I can't finish off, with sides of roasted farm carrots, slaw with everything but the kitchen sink in it and green beans with pecans (off our trees) comes in at $2.15 a plate. Sometimes, I'll include some homemade steakhouse bread. I'm not about to get dressed, drive to a steak house, wait forever for the order, gamble on it even being edible, pay out the wahzoo, tip and then drive home with my entire evening wasted.

16 posted on 08/14/2016 3:10:03 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Never heard of the chain; I saw that there was one not far from here. Looked on Yelp; 2 stars with many comments about poor service and some about the quality of the food prep.

Looks like I haven’t missed anything, and that they should have the local one on the closing list.


17 posted on 08/14/2016 3:10:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Kroger and Central Market’s prime steaks are head-and-shoulders above most steak restaurants up to the Ruth’s Chris level. Used to enjoy the Carter Green steakhouse at the Island View casino in Gulfport when we lived there, though.


18 posted on 08/14/2016 3:13:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Never been, myself, but 18 closures in a large chain isn’t that much. I hope they pull it together.


19 posted on 08/14/2016 3:22:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("From the cradle to the grave, man is unteachable." ~ Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

me 2!
we always have great food when we go there.


20 posted on 08/14/2016 3:29:40 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( Go Trump!!! Kick ass and take names!!!)
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