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pepper grinder rating scale the saturday dining conspiracy glossary the saturday dining conspiracy list of restaurants that can die in a fire the saturday dining conspiracy policy on hostages older posts more random food notes posted on june 22 2026 by dwightbrown 1 on the border is really most sincerely dead previously otb hospitality llc filed for bankruptcy on friday effectively ending pappas restaurants efforts to revive on the border brand after acquiring it out of bankruptcy last year the news also comes a month after the group announced a series of changes for the restaurant chain including a sweeping menu overhaul this was an incredibly difficult decision our teams worked hard over the past year to stabilize the business but it became clear that otb would require substantial ongoing investment that would pull focus and resources away from the core operations that define who we are chris pappas said in a statement while this was a necessary step we remain incredibly proud of our team members and the heart they brought to this brand and we are deeply grateful to the guests and employees who supported on the border for so many years this isn t chapter 11 this is chapter 7 which is complete liquidation according to bankruptcy filings otb hospitality entered liquidation with about 753 000 in assets and more than 6 2 million in liabilities in addition the company had around 2 million in severance to former staff and listed 15 4 million in vendor payments in the 90 days preceding the bankruptcy 2 the latest restaurant that allegedly isn t paying their staff down south cajjun eats in pflugerville at first saldana said employees were issued checks but not always ones they could immediately cash they were just giving us the checks but we couldn t cash them because they were gonna bounce saldana said they would ask us oh can you cash them in two or three days instead saldana said owners would pay employees including herself through apps like cash app and zelle but the delays continued with money often arriving days after payday we d consider eating at the place there aren t nearly enough cajun options around town but not if they are cheating their workers to be fair though they may be having more problems than normal a guy got killed there during cinco de mayo and that s the kind of thing that puts a damper on business 3 is sysco ruining the restaurant business the general public got a full taste of sysco resentment in october 2025 when progressive nonprofit more perfect union published the hidden reason why restaurants are getting worse by brock hrehor in the report hrehor noted sysco had become too central to independent restaurant operations supplying pre prepared and pre made ingredients and meals en masse in a way that s driving the company s business model this has had the effect according per the report of contributing to a kind of sameness across different restaurants and killing unique and creative cooking under the threat of consolidation progressive nonprofit i m going to say no to the question above and i have no real brief for sysco posted in closed meta mexican leave a comment random notes posted on june 18 2026 by dwightbrown 1 penske media the owners of deadline and the hollywood reporter have bought the eater websites among others publishing brands including food authority eater tech destination the verge sports network sb nation travel brand thrillist lifestyle site popsugar animal story focused the dodo and drinking culture site punch were acquired by penske media the companies said on thursday as i ve noted in this space previously eater austin has been completely useless for quite a while now these days i get better coverage of the austin restaurant scene from the houston chronicle it will be interesting to see if penske tries to revive the austin specific part or if they decide to shutter that side of eater 2 something i ve noticed recently and find interesting i ve been hearing a lot recently about how hard times are for barbecue places what with the high price of beef and everything else well kruez market in lockhart has been heavily advertising their catering services on local television i ve noticed the ads on one specific channel during a specific time period i m trying to recall the last time i saw a commercial for a barbecue place and i can t i d link to the commercial but it doesn t seem to be on the tube 3 twin peaks has spun itself off from the bankrupt fat brands previously according to the release shared monday twin peaks said it will no longer be associated with fat brands and will return to its previous status as a privately held company operating as summit twin hospitality i llc posted in american barbecue media leave a comment the last roundup posted on june 11 2026 by dwightbrown louisiana longhorn in round rock is closing on june 20th this is a darn shame we had a couple of sdcs there and i ate there from time to time when i worked closer to round rock it was a pretty swell cajun seafood place in an interview with the austin american statesman our sister paper louisiana longhorn owners warren and jenny smith said rising food prices a lack of parking and the changing nature of round rock s downtown area were among the factors behind the closure business was especially challenging outside of winter and crawfish season in other news the houchron is reporting that all of the on the border locations are closing as you may recall pappas restaurants bought on the border out of bankruptcy last year i think it will be interesting to see what pappas does with the properties otb s website says they are hiring but if you click on the various opportunities on that page they all say they currently have no positions available posted in cajun closed mexican 1 comment leaving a vacuum posted on march 20 2026 by dwightbrown hoover s cooking on manor road is closing at the end of may this stinks i don t eat at hoover s as much as i used to since it s a bit far away from me here in the hinterlands but it is a pretty swell southern soul food restaurant i was always partial to the jerk ribs and jerk chicken they also had very good pies and mr alexander other than being a long time fixture in the austin restaurant scene was also very generous with his time and resources he regularly provided food for the austin police department citizen s police academy among other charitable engagements the austin high and university of texas graduate cites slow sales difficulty staffing and a personal pace slowed by the march of time for shuttering the restaurant located just blocks from his childhood and current home but hoover the man is not done yet we wish him the best of luck in his future ventures posted in american closed news southern leave a comment closing notice posted on february 20 2026 by dwightbrown the league kitchen tavern in lakeway is closing on february 25th according to a post on nextdoor this is backed up with a photo of the sign on the door this is not a great tragedy there s another league kitchen tavern a little more than three miles down the road in the hill country galleria and two more in the avery ranch area and near dripping springs also the parent company tc4 and co owns the tony c s pizza chain and something called cousin louie s i ll come back to that among other restaurants the sign mentions five brands and over 20 locations mighty fine burgers is one of them and it seems like they count tony c s coal fired pizza and tony c s pizza and beer garden as separate brands when i first became aware of it it was ciola s italian american restaurant i m not sure what the relationship is between the people who ran that and the tony ciola who is a partner in tc4 but i digress that was sold and briefly rebranded as another italian restaurant that italian restaurant wasn t able to make payments and was locked out by the ciola corporate entity who turned it into the league i don t know how long the original ciola s was open but i m guessing at least a few years before my first visit there so we re looking at a shopping center that s at least 25 years old someone in the nd thread mentions that the former anchor tenant in that shopping center was a piggly wiggly grocery store but that s been gone for a long time i mention all of this to sort of set a timeline the closing notice places the blame on their inability to negotiate a new lease with the landlords some of the nd commenters who appear to be superficially knowledgeable about the business claim that this symptomatic of a recent trend strip center owners want to charge new property rents for places in centers that haven t been refurbished in 25 years or more i can t recall that center being given any kind of makeover since the first time we went to ciola s we dealt with this issue with a similar older worn out commercial space when something like the new heb and development move in next door they can basically do nothing and double or triple the rent for the same space simple because of proximity the commercial spaces near the y both the wm cannon and where the previous heb and albertsons now goodwill commercials areas are like this as well they re practically unusable as far as quality goes worn out facilities and lack of utilities in many cases and they re being rented as if they re prime space in a mall setting aside the whole question of whether there is such a thing as prime space in a mall any longer i don t know enough to be able to dispute that argument but i can see the author may have a point on the other hand for the spaces they mentioned the big problem is they re at the y in oak hill the intersection of 290 and 71 which is currently the center of a massive road construction project and probably will be for the next several years nobody wants to rent space in the middle of that mess even if they can get it cheap cousin louie s is a full service italian american restaurant which sounds very much like an attempt to revive the old ciola s the closing notice also says they are planning to open one in lakeway but i m guessing they aren t going into that space where they might go i have no idea but i do have one guess and i haven t been to the one that s currently open which is also out near dripping springs in the same development as the league i d propose that to lawrence for an sdc except a his current lack of a job precludes that and ii driving all the way out to just short of dripping springs is going to be a real tough sell to him and to all the other sdc regulars except maybe andrew will drive anywhere for food w posted in american burgers closed leave a comment signs signs everywhere the signs posted on february 8 2026 by dwightbrown houston is a little outside of my normal beat and i wouldn t ordinarily make note of this restaurant closing however it is closing for a reason that isn t on my restaurant closing reason bingo card succulent fine dining at 1180 dunlavy st announced friday on instagram it would be closing its doors immediately and why two words parking sucked according to succulent s statement a formal notice was given to regent square s landlord and developer with complaints about not having shared spaces open in the parking garage which is otherwise restricted to apartment tenants despite eight months of efforts to resolve the matter parking was still an issue they claim so they made the difficult decision to close the restaurant s last day of service was thursday the chron article reproduces an instagram post from the restaurant according to that post this escalated as far as the city of houston who notified the developers that they were required to provide parking for the restaurant offering minimal valet at a 25 per car is egregious virene continued our valued guests have not been able to access our establishment at a reasonable cost or with ease and that is simply not acceptable for the level of hospitality we strive to provide we ve been to a lot of places that had bad or questionable parking many of which have closed but this is the first time i ve actually seen a restaurant close and cite parking as the reason posted in american closed leave a comment gone with the breeze posted on february 4 2026 by dwightbrown darden restaurants is closing down all of the bahama breeze restaurants according to darden 14 of them are going to be converted into other darden brands no specifics and the other half are just going to close permanently there used to be a bahama breeze in austin near the intersection of great hills trail and capitol of texas highway but it seems to be closed now and i have no idea how long it has been that way never ate there and it was really never even on my radar posted in caribbean closed leave a comment peak ed posted on january 27 2026 by dwightbrown twin hospitality inc filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday the significance of this is that twin hospitality is the parent company of the slightly classier than hooters twin peaks chain twin hospitality actually went public almost exactly a year ago after spinning off from fat brands by the way fat brands filed for chapter 11 as well there s a long list in the fat brands wikipedia entry but they own ponderosa and bonanza marble slab and hot dog on a stick among other establishments they re also still listed as owning twin peaks but if twin peaks went public last year i m not sure how that works unless fat brands owns a majority of the stock posted in american burgers 1 comment young man there s no need to feel down posted on january 10 2026 by dwightbrown the vince young steakhouse in downtown austin is closing january 24th restaurant website the decision reflects a thoughtful assessment of the changing environment facing independent single location restaurants alongside rising costs across the restaurant industry i ve felt for a while now that austin is oversaturated with high end steak houses two locations of flemming s two locations of perry s a ruth s chris and i believe one or two new ones opened in 2025 though i m blanking on specifics right now we had a birthday dinner at vince young s once i don t remember there being anything particularly bad or wrong about it but i also don t remember there being anything particularly memorable about it and at those prices i kind of want memorable also it was downtowm and we generally try to avoid downtown austin these days posted in closed steak leave a comment revenge is a dish best served cold posted on january 7 2026 by dwightbrown the award winning italian restaurant vespaio on south congress is closing next month when i say award winning i mean of course that vespaio was the first recipient of the coveted saturday dining conspiracy die in a fire award for sheer rudeness good riddance to bad rubbish posted in closed italian leave a comment older posts search for june 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 mar categories 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