Business & Tech
Newark's Hometown Buffet Spared
Buffets, Inc. announces the closure of 81 Hometown Buffet restaurants. Union City's location has closed.
Tri-City residents craving crunchy fried chicken and gooey mac-and-cheese from Hometown Buffet can now only fulfill that food desire in Newark.
According to the Sacramento Business Journal, 81 Hometown Buffet restaurants were ordered to promptly shut down by its parent company, Buffets, Inc., a Minnesota-based company that runs several chains across the country.
Union City's Hometown Buffet on Decoto Road was among those restaurants.
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A Union City Patch reader said he went to the Union City restaurant for lunch Friday afternoon only to find a sign on the door that said the store would be permanently closed.
The Newark and Hayward locations, however, have apparently been spared.
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Buffet’s Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this week and announced the list of closures Friday.
According to a list published on the Business Journal website, Union City was one of three California locations, along with Long Beach and Lancaster, that were closed.
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