California’s Beloved Curry House Chain Suddenly Shuts Down
A Japanese American restaurant chain shocked its managers, employees and regular patrons with the sudden closure of all its branches.
Curry House mysteriously shut all of its restaurants down on Monday without giving anyone in its workforce any advance notice.
Workers were informed that their final paychecks would be made available to pick up at a later date in signs posted outside the restaurants, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The website for Curry House USA has already been brought down, indicating that the closure might not be temporary.
Curry House’s closure has ignited a flurry of sad posts from avid customers on social media, with some calling it “Curry House Massacre” and the “Brown Wedding.”
i am beyond devastated hearing the news of all curry house locations closing down. it genuinely feels like a loss – i’ve been going there since i was a kid and always say menchi katsu would be my last meal on earth 😭💔 pic.twitter.com/RemfDQuvQE
— kat (@katthompsonn) February 25, 2020
curry house cypress is gone too. same notice put up on their door as the other locations. everything inside is cleaned out
I literally was here last Saturday. didn’t feel like this was going to happen at all pic.twitter.com/6NBRmzqJxo
— byteru (@byteruru) February 25, 2020
Today I found out Curry House USA decided to closed all of their locations, effective immediately, and left all of their employees jobless with absolutely no warning. They went into work yesterday, and were informed today that they were out of the job. 😡
— katie (pls join my dynamax raid) (@thericKeTandoo) February 25, 2020
I worked at the curry house in Torrance. We all only found out this morning. Its crazy to go from working the night before to abruptly closing down the next day with no warning. Give some love to everyone from curry house, it has been a really rough day. ❤️
— Bootleg TJ (@TJBalaschak) February 25, 2020
In an interview with Newsweek, 22-year-old Theadore Balaschak shared how he and his fellow employees found out that the restaurant was closing.
“It caught all of us off guard,” Balaschak was quoted as saying. “From what I heard from my co-workers it had to do with the investment firm that bought Curry House last year—one of the people from corporate was talking to our manager and, apparently, he said that in order for them to make a profit off Curry House it would have taken two-and-a-half years to make $1.”
According to Balaschak, the employees were contacted on Monday morning, informing them that they were out of a job.
“It was really tragic seeing that everything was already being thrown away,” the former employee shared. “We were open the night before and yet moving people came at 6 a.m—they knew before any of us did that we were out of a job.”
Formerly owned by House Food America, Curry House was purchased by CH Acquisitions, LLC over a year ago. The same year, Curry House’s management was turned over to Food Management Partners Inc., a restaurant investment firm that was later involved in a fraud lawsuit.
In the case that remains pending, three co-founders and another executive of FMP SA Management Group LLC — reportedly an affiliate of Food Management Partners Inc — were accused of fraud and civil conspiracy, San Antonio Express News reports.
Chicago-based investment group River North Furr’s LLC alleged that executives from an FMP affiliate spent $12 million in business earnings on “exotic cars, boats, homes and foreign travel.”
Feature Image via Yelp
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