The chain has not released a list of the restaurants it has closed. News web sites in New Orleans, Houston, Chattanooga and Wichita have reported closings of some of the chain’s locations in recent days.
Fox & Hound had 48 locations and Champps 23 prior to a Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy filing earlier this month. A spokesman for the chains' parent company told NRN Tuesday that there area now 37 Fox & Hound location and 14 Champps. Another line of bars owned by the company, Bailey's, was reduced from nine to four locations.
Court filings that were part of the bankruptcy proceedings suggested that the company could have been forced to liquidate after Aug. 30, but a source for capital was secured tjhat will allow the chains to be put up for sale, NRN reported.
In 2014, a Champps location in Washington Twp. shut down abruptly, laying off 65 employees. That sports bar, located on 7880 Washington Village Drive, was replaced by Chappys Social House in 2015.
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