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A fast-food cheeseburger with melted cheese, fries and ketchup on a diner plate
Hospitality · Grand Rapids

Meritage Hospitality: 33 Wendy’s closed, 60 more at risk

A US Bankruptcy Trustee calls the pace of Meritage’s closures extraordinary, as Wendy’s argues its biggest franchisee has no right to keep running the restaurants at all.

25 October 2026 · 2 min read
Candlelit table set with wine glasses and folded napkins in a New York dining room
Hospitality · New York

Fireman Hospitality Group sells to Landry's out of Chapter 11

Three of Sheldon Fireman's New York dining rooms are heading to a Houston buyer, a year after his death and a cash crunch fed by merchant cash advances.

22 October 2026 · 2 min read
Exterior of a True Food Kitchen restaurant in Santa Monica with its sign and sidewalk planters
Hospitality · Scottsdale

True Food Kitchen bankruptcy: 12 restaurants close, sale ahead

The US health-focused chain filed for Chapter 11 in Texas with $42.1 million in funded debt, keeps 34 restaurants open and plans a court-supervised sale by January.

6 October 2026 · 2 min read
Plate of fried chicken and waffles on a wooden restaurant table
Hospitality · Miami

Yardbird bankruptcy filing opens court sale process

Yardbird Group LLC and ten affiliated entities filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware on September 21, listing $25 million in secured debt as the chain pursues a court-supervised sale.

22 September 2026 · 2 min read
Empty booth seating and tables in a retro American fast-food diner
Hospitality · Grand Rapids

Wendy's biggest US franchisee files for Chapter 11

Meritage Hospitality, which runs 314 Wendy's restaurants, filed for bankruptcy protection after store-level earnings fell 48% in a year.

19 September 2026 · 1 min read
Glass towers and shopping complex of Grand Front Osaka beside Osaka Station
Hospitality · Osaka

Osaka restaurant bankruptcy: LIAISON operator owes ¥1.2bn

The DINING, which opened the Michelin-starred French restaurant LIAISON in 2017 and grew to about 30 outlets, has stopped trading with some 300 creditors.

17 September 2026 · 2 min read
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