Longtime reader Carl tipped us off Monday night that the Victoria Gardens Toby Keith’s I ♥ This Bar & Grill has closed.
It’s just the latest of a string of closures for the chain, but whatever happened, happened pretty quickly: Yelp reviews indicate the restaurant was open Sunday night and the restaurant’s Twitter page posted a link early Monday morning to its now-nonexistent Facebook page.
A Love and Theft concert slated to take place at the venue on September 24 has been cancelled.
Several of the chain’s locations across the country have closed in the last year or so, including a Phoenix restaurant that opened earlier this year.
In August, workers in Cincinnati sued the chain for non-payment of wages and concealing the restaurant’s shutdown in July of this year. That location also had several legal issues.
Other recently shuttered locations include Oxnard, Folsom, Syracuse, N.Y., Newport News, Va., Tucson, Ariz., Orlando, Fla., Woodbridge, Va., Orange Beach, Ala., St. Louis Park, Minn., and Houston. A Rosemont, Ill. location is facing an eviction trial in October.
The restaurants are operated by Phoenix-based Boomtown Entertainment.
I ♥ This Bar & Grill? Well…maybe not so much.
The Rancho Cucamonga location, which opened in April 2012, was at 12635 North Main St.
The last couple of weeks, Vom Fass Claremont has been hosting a battle for the Inland Empire’s best bartender, and round one voting wraps up in just a couple of days.
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