This week on Nation's Restaurant News, the top story was “A bevy of restaurant bankruptcies filled the courts in the past few weeks.” It’s been an awful (and record) year for restaurant bankruptcies so far, and as English singer Morrissey once sang, “November spawned a monster.” Indeed, at least six Chapter 11 filings have been made in the past several weeks alone, impacting everything from eatertainment to chicken and waffles to bakery concepts.
In other news, In an 8-K filing released last Monday, BurgerFi announced that the sale of its assets from both its Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza and BurgerFi brands were court-approved. The sale comes shortly after the company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in September.
Also, Smalls Sliders, the 19-unit, Atlanta-based burger chain, has filed a trademark lawsuit in the District of Colorado against the Denver, Colo.-based, 210-unit Smashburger chain. The company claims Smashburger’s new logo, an orange, S-shaped burger, is too similar to the logo Smalls Sliders already uses.
See what else was trending on NRN.com this week.
