Food Retailing / Supermarkets

Brinker Shutters U.K. Restaurants

Closings involve eight locales

Published

15 years ago

June 19, 2009

VMSD Staff

Brinker International Inc. has shuttered its eight restaurants in the United Kingdom, Nation’s Restaurant News reports. The restaurants — six Chili's Grill & Bar units, one Maggiano's Little Italy and one Romano's Macaroni Grill — closed Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Dallas-based Brinker said.

Brinker’s Stacey Sullivan told NRN the closings were “consistent with our policy of proactively evaluating operations and closing underperforming locations.” The U.K. restaurants were a Brinker subsidiary, Hatfield Restaurants Ltd., which the company said has been placed into administration, the British equivalent of bankruptcy.

Sullivan said the company would consider re-entering the U.K. “as the economic environment evolves there” and that the company remains committed to opening to having 500 restaurants outside the United States by 2014.

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