SPB Hospitality
American restaurant company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SPB Hospitality is a multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company owns several casual dining restaurant chain brands, including Logan's Roadhouse, Old Chicago Pizza + Taproom, J. Alexander's, Stoney River Steak House, Krystal Restaurants, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants, and Rock Bottom Restaurants Breweries. As of November 2019, CraftWorks owned and operated over 390 restaurants in the United States,[3] but all of its owned-and-operated locations closed by March 2020, after a Chapter 11 bankruptcy followed immediately by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and CraftWorks terminated its 18,000 employees, leaving fewer than 25 employed.[4] On June 12, 2020, SPB Hospitality purchased Craftworks businesses out of bankruptcy for $93 million.[5]
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Restaurant |
Founded | 2020; 4 years ago (2020) in Broomfield, Colorado |
Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
Key people | Josh Kern, (CEO)[1] Jessica Hagler (CFO) |
Owner | Fortress Investment Group, Golden Child Holdings[2] |
Number of employees | 18,000 |
Website | https://www.spbhospitality.com/ |