{"id":8892,"date":"2026-02-13T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:21:36","slug":"my-favorite-steak-restaurant-is-closing-all-261-of-its-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8892","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Steak Restaurant Is Closing All 261 Of Its Locations.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logan\u2019s Roadhouse is closing 261 locations and has fired all employees, leaving workers without jobs or healthcare during a major economic and health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by the same parent company as Old Chicago, CraftWorks Holdings chose to furlough staff rather than adapt with take-out or delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The situation worsened after CEO Hazem Ouf was fired for misappropriating $7 million in sales taxes. Despite his removal, the company continued shutting down locations, claiming it lacked funds to keep them operating.<\/p>\n<p>Employees were left suddenly unemployed, facing financial and healthcare uncertainty amid the ongoing crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Logan\u2019s Roadhouse is closing 261 locations and has fired all employees, leaving workers without jobs or healthcare during a major economic and health crisis. Owned <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8892\" title=\"My Favorite Steak Restaurant Is Closing All 261 Of Its Locations..\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8894,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions\/8894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}