R.I.P.
Filed under: R.I.P.
It happened overnight and without warning!
Effective immediately all Bennigan's restaurants are closed for business.
The chain owns and operates around 800 Bennigan's across America.
Yet another major blow to the economy!
Posted: July 29, 2008 at 10:42 am
i called the one i work near and asked what time they were open untill they said they were closed. then street that they are on looks like a graveyard its sits right next to a closed down chi chis.
MAN!! Now where am I gonna eat dinner
Perez sucks ass… all he does is post the dumbest shit with the world stupidest comments seriously thinks this is a blow to america? pull your head out of your bfs ass and get a real life you moron.
monte cristo. rip.
Bennigans sucked anyway, no one has eaten there in years. The economy is fine get your head out of your ass!
OK People. Check out Perez to laugh at celebs, but please seek other sources for your financial news. Bennigans is closing has less to do with a slumping economy (not recession), and more to do with the fact the media company that owns the stores violated terms of a lending agreement with GE capital. This violation is leaving them with little choice other than going bankrupt.
BTW, this only applies to the company owned franchises, not individually owned stores.
Just one more thing, economists classify a recession as TWO consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. We have not yet had even one quarter of negative growth yet.
Is Bennegans an east coast chain? I've never heard of it….
Duh. The main chain filed for BANKRUPTCY. Metromedia violated terms of loans. This does not include privately owned FRANCHISES. It has NOTHING to do with the economy.
Awww, I have such fond memories of the one in Santa Clara. I got kicked out for being drunk in public.
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that's wierd b/c they are still open where I live
My roommate's boyfriend runs all but one Bennigans in our metro area and she knew nothing about it until I called. He was kept in the dark until this morning. Imagine how many hundreds of people that puts out of work in each city. And all those servers live hand to mouth- rent's due in 4 days…
It takes a restaurant chain of this size a long time to fail. Management probably started getting worried a good three years ago at least. It's not a result of today's economy.
good!
i hate bennigan's - they have the worst customer service EVER! viva chili's! lol
omg i kinda loveddd Bennigan's! That's sad! =(
GOOD FOR THE FUCKERS! Last year I took my family there for dinner. It was 6pm and the fucking bar was BLASTING some god forsaken Death Metal. I complained to the manager and he said, "I see you're almost done with dinner so there's no need to turn it down for everyone else." The fucker was serious.
Screw Shennangians!!! Worked there for 4 years… they went bankrupt because they started doing 599 lunches with drinks included on 10 different items. Once that stopped, so did the people. Management was borderline retarded…. I wouldve loved to burn it down myself but their turkey o tooles are like crack cocaine. I called one of my friends who still worked there and they called her out this morning saying "A water line broke". Douches…. at least tell employees theyre jobless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turkey O'Toole was the best sandwich…:(
Re: finn – less disposable income? i still go out and spend 60 bucks a weekend at a bar, then spend $250 at the mall monday morning…. if i had more disposable income i dont know what id do with it!! and this is on a first year teachers salary… AND i dont get paid in the summer!!
fuck off democrats
clearly i havent felt the effects of the "recession" as you democrats like to call it… and im just an average jane (on the way lower end of average, making just entry level money) like the rest of you idiots… difference is that i have a brain.
OH.. and BTW!!! I drive a brand new SUV that guzzles gas….. how do i pay for it you ask? must be all that disposable income i have!!
Perez i love your site, but it makes me sick to realize how uneducated u are when it comes to politics and world affairs. It also makes me sick that you and other celebrities preach what u want and always think you are right, when more then half the people realize ur just making urself look dumb. U should watch what u say about our country and our president b4 u become just like the dixi chicks. But on a positive note i do like ur site please stop talking politics, didnt your mother teach you nothing good ever comes from arguing politics?
only since your favorite restaurants closing you have noticed this economy crisis?
really it all basically started when the house market became a buyers market & gas went up because of greedy corporate execs
It was obvious we were going into another recession/depression.
I still mourn the loss of The Black Eyed Pea restaurants years ago. They had the best hot wheat rolls and a honey mustard sauce I can't duplicate.
Benigans was just another Fridays/Ruby Tuesday/Applebees. They're all the same.
Re: Ggeck – THANK you!!!!!! someone knows what they're talking about!!
OMG they have the best margaritas ever and the bottomless fries??? what are we to do????????????
i was never sure why such a restaurant even existed. their food was generic as shit.
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO LEARN TO USE CHOPSTICKS!
I guess now I will find out what life is like without a Turkey O'Toole. Dammit.
NOT Surprised!!! The last 3 times I went to Bennigen's it sucked. The service was slow, the food sucked and too pricey for what shit you got. They stretched their menu too far and ceased to be an "Irish-American" restaurant.
Sorry Perez but this one is just NOT TRUE. After reading this post I immediately called my local Bennigans (Ann Arbor, MI) to see if they were open. They were in fact open and we went to lunch there today. No one at the restaurant has heard anything of this impending closure.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo…i love the Monte Cristo!!!!
Slow down on the economic commentary Mario. Piss poor businesses should fail in a free market economy. When the last time you ate at a bennigans? this is now an opportunity for an entrepreneur to step and create a great new chain to fill the void.
According to the website only those company owned are closed. Any that are francisee owned are still open, like the one across the street from where I work, it's owned by the Holiday Inn it adjoins to. Please fact check.
Bennigan's is possibly the most disgusting food, ever.
R.I.P. Irish Denny's
Re: Bas18 – Good for you - it isn't single professionals feeling the cold though - average income families with kids and extended family like elderly dependents ect ARE. I'm for higher wages for educators btw. educators are an asset and I disagree with the cut backs and lack luster spending on educational resources under the republicans
That did not happen overnight…most of the Bennegans in the south have been closed for a while. That food was the epitomy of greasy anyway.
Re: Bas18 – You're an educator? Really? With that haphazard elitist vacuous attitude you work within a private republican prep school obviously with a much higher than public educator salary.
Enjoy your ignorance.
I thought they went out of business years ago. Can't remember the last time I saw one and I travel the country quite a bit. It's not like this is some huge, shocking tragedy.
Re: Lo. – Blame him for cancer ,hurricanes too while your at it
Re: Bas18 – Vulgar mindless republican consumption.. ugh
There's no way you're a public educator or from an average income WORKING CLASS family…bwahhahaha!
Ignorance will bite you and your gas guzzling suv in the ass eventually.
Re: Hhunt – Yes, it is true. My hubby's a manager and he found out at 8am this morning that he no longer had a job.
I live in chicago and they are all closed ) : my bf and i had our first 2 dates there and oddly sat in the same seat.. im sad. ha. and no more potato soup!!! NOOOOOOOO
i've never even seen one of those, and i know this whole east coast
i'm sure we'll live, there ARE other restaurants
Good thing it's not Chili's closing its doors or else those Simpson girls would be pissed!
It's a shame another chain of restaurants, bites the dust.
Obama becoming, President, can't happen soon enough!
1. At least, BO will increase taxes, which always spurs economic growth, providing more jobs, just like in France or in Detroit, NY or NJ.
2. Of course, no drilling anywhere, will ultimately help increase supply and the price of gasoline will go down in ten short years or so.
3. Socialized medicine will be as good as it is in Europe and Canada, and
4. America can finally get serious about global warming. Just because China drills off of our shores doesn't mean USA should follow in suit. There were no oil spills after Katrina, but, a spill could happen! America must go back to basics and stop being wasteful.
5. Our troops will be brought home immediately from Iraq. It's just silly to think that AlQueda thought America surrendered….I believe, they'll like us when Bush is thankfullly gone.
Oh Obama, you are the one we've waited for.
OBAMA '08
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, HIGHER TAXES AND SURRENDER
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME /sarcasm on
called the one that I went to just this past Sunday. manager answered the phone said they were closed and just found out when they showed up for work. nice way to give notice to your employees!
Uh Perez, I don't know just how much of a "blow to the economy" this is. I mean, how many people actually eat at this restaurant anyway?
Most Bennigan's have been closed for over a year. Do some fucking research.
[re=2674992]Re: smsa[/re
Sorry for your husbands job loss. The problem is that not ALL the restaurants are closing. Franchise owned stores are remaining OPEN.
Re: Ash13 – because their food was gross! It was like a tv dinner microwaved and served at your table.
That's a damn shame.
Too many people out of jobs now.
BOOOO!!!!! No more turkey o'toole!
BFD. Never heard of the place.
Um… the Bennigan's down the street from my office is still open. (San Antonio.) They had a big lunch crowd. Definitely not closed.
One less place where mexicans can make a living!!!
this is honestly so depressing. i used to eat there for happy hour because they had $4 appetizers and there food was sooo good
What?! No more KICK ASS Monte Cristo sandwiches while I drink my two-for-one Long Islands??? NOOOOOOO! R.I.P. Bennigan's. You will be missed!!!!!
Re: Kate27 –
Hey have some respect for the Aboriginals of this continent!!
I'm glad these restaurants are closing! Fucking Americans are the biggest land mass mammals on earth.
but i love bennigan's!
Oh no! They had the best quesadillas I've ever had. I also loved their turkey sandwich on that money pretzel bread. This sucks!!!!
Perez, why don't you fact check your stories.
They are NOT closing 800 stores. They have 800 stores total, closing 300 of them and they are NOT all Benningans. Company owned stores will be closing. Franchise operations will not be closing unless of course they file on their own.
Please take more of an interest in your stories before posting them. As I have seen many times, you simply post incorrect stories and of course people believe what they read so they are non the wiser…
hi. i work at a bennigans in clarks summit pennsylvania.. and we didnt and ((i dont think?)) are closing because we are independently owned.. so not alll of them are!
tear:'(
Re: ronda – Actually, if you really want to know - I teach in a PUBLIC school……WITH NO UNION!!!
Oh No soooooo sad
oh nooooooooooo.no more turkey o'toole sandwiches on warm pretzel bread
:(
no - its not the economy, its the fact that there food sucks!! i'm a restaurant management student and when I ate there, there were EIGHT health code violations in the hour I was there - terrible service on top of that. THATS why they closed
No way!! My friends were all there just a couple days ago! That sucks!!
All of you who believe every single thing you read on hear are DUMB ASS's!!!! Do you really think that the economy is so bad that an entire chain would close??? and if you say yes then u are dumb! And no not all of the Bennigans are closing .. just some, this site is not politicaly correct.. watch cnn for that shit!
Re: kelly – consumption.. yeah - spending money is what drives economy. im not pinching every penny i own because democrats are using scare tactics to make us think we're in a recession - which by definition WE ARENT.
and you say working class like its something to be proud of! how is it my fault i went to college and didnt have a child at 20 years old? as for coming from a working class family - my father did work in the steel mills to put himself through college to come out as a teacher making $6000/year…. could you IMAGINE that??????? 6000 f'ing dollars a year….where workers in the mill made TWICE that… where he and my mom had to scrounge and save to buy a pizza on a friday night…
he was a registered democrat then… and you'd think he would vote that way now if the economy is so bad and they were so focused on helping everyday people. however, he now votes republican.
The stores that are owned by Metromedia have CLOSED! There are some that are indepentently owned that are still open. This is a big to the economic situation due to the fact that alot of people are losing their jobs. Everyday a corporation is laying off more people. The President needs to realize that we are becoming at a fast rate a third world country.
Re: Bas18 – You're clearly deluded or a troll pushing an agenda.
I'm an educator and the only thing i can say is i'm lucky if i can afford to buy a cart full of grocerys for my family some months lately . Don't get me wrong , I love my job but not so much the meager salary.
Anyway , have a nice day.
Poor Poor Butters!
Excuse my typo *groceries.
Steak and Ale too?
- I guess it's time to start a diet!
Restaurant chains Bennigan's and Steak & Ale have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection and stores owned by its parent company will shut their doors.
The companies owned by privately held Metromedia Restaurant Group of Plano, Texas, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in the Eastern District of Texas, less than two months after Metromedia said it was not preparing to do so. It wasn't clear whether franchisee-owned restaurants would be closing as well.
In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing, a company seeks to liquidate its assets and shut down
Aw hamburgers!
All of the Bennigan's near me are still opened. The franchise owned ones are not closing, only the company owned ones are.
The one in Chicago is open…I can see people outside being served.
Re: Bas18 – I'm telling you that maybe you should take those blinders off for a second and recognize that lots of people are struggling atm. I'm glad you have success and are in a position to experience a certain amount of material luxury in your life , but I think you need to grasp this is not everyones current reality and presenting yours as if it is isn't accurate at all.
Actually they're not all closing. I live in Michigan and the one near me is staying open, it's in Plymouth Michgan but the Steak and Ale next to it closed.
Just the corporate stores are closing. All the franchise stores are good for now. I work at Bennigans and I had customers calling all morning and I had NO idea what was going on.
Actually not all of the Bennigan's are closing… Northwest Indiana's will still be open.
AND for all the people who say that Bennigans is terrible and blah blah blah…have you really been to EVERY bennigans in the U.S. because I bet its just your service that sucks at the particular location.
thats jsut because bennigans food sucks! They closed that place in my city along tim eago cause noone went there.
wooohooo nik hope that's true hahahaha…
only for perez and butter's sake
awww. Bennigan's will be missed.
Privately owned Bennigan's are staying open!!
No problem. This will open the market for more Hooters and Buffalo Wild Wings.
I only know bennigan's from a mention on a tv show. locally for me in louisville,ky all of the ponderosa's have closed (they've been disgusting & substandard for years). a friend told me they filed bankruptcy & are done. Apparently no one in corp. wants the customers to know b/c the local one by me says it's closed, but for remodeling. IHOP has just popped up here & their corporation is supposed to have bought all nationwide Applebee's & are turning all Applebee's into IHOP's. Applebee's suck. Does anyone remember/ have ever eaten at Remmington's? There were several locations here in Louisville (it's like Applebee's) but the food, service, everything sucked & they closed up after like 5 yrs. They were popular with college kids for cheap food.
Re: luvst – Another blissful post.
Lucky me i quit 2 weeks ago…. suck because at my Bennigans there were people that had been working there for YEARS!!! It was bound to happen tho…
First off they had the world's greatest Monte Cristo sandwich!
WTF am I supposed to do now?
Thanks Republican's!
thank god! this place is so shitty
Re: slick – You're ignorant if you think that, I worked at one of the Bennigan's that closed and the majority of people working there were college students, not illegal immigrants, so if you're stupid, then shut the fuck up, because you HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!
OMG! Please tell me this isn't true!!!
Steak & Ale is on it's way out, too.
Damn!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: swim9 – Listen dipshit you might not like the food but dont thank god because there r hudreds of people most who needed the job to survive who are noy unemployed without a minute's notice. A lot of these people were friends and ex-coworkers that i spent a lot of time with. so even tho you didnt like the food put yourself in these people's position and get your head out of your anus and shut the fuck up.
Re: Valky – it was not.
Re: swim9 – Listen retard you need to pull your head out of your anus before you start typing away on your little keyboard without any sense. you might have not liked the food but dont "thank god" hundreds of people are unemplyed without a minute's notice. Their employees woke up this morning and a lot of them left their kids at home only to show up and find out that they were out of a job and were not going to receive their last paycheck. in other words they are screwed. so before yiu say something so ignorant and stupid put yourself in these people's position.
sincerely,
Former bennigans employee