Logan's Roadhouse files for bankruptcy

[TexasTowelie]

Nashville-based restaurant chain Logan's Roadhouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday with plans to restructure its operations and close 18 locations.

Logan's said in a statement that its CEO, Sam Borgese, will leave the company, but it was not immediately clear when a replacement would be identified.

The steak and Southern-inspired casual dining chain said that it had secured support for its restructuring plan from its first-lien lenders and bondholders and landed up to $25 million in bankruptcy financing.

The company's "customers continue to face pressure on discretionary income, directly correlating to depressed restaurant sales and reduced customer traffic," Logan's chief restructuring officer Keith Maib said in a court filing.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/2016/08/08/logans-roadhouse-chapter-11-bankruptcy/88405924/

[tonyt53]

1. Way too many food offerings on their menu.

[scscholar]

2. As a consultant in the restaurant business, you are correct

Went to Red Robin yesterday for research for work, and they're going the same way. Their menu is an entire book. They're across a pedestrian walkway from Cheesecake Factory that makes the same mistake.

[edhopper]

3. "casual dining" chains all suck

people should just go to real restaraunts.

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. YOLO. In other words... people should just go to wherever their hearts desire.

Pretentious.

[edhopper]

6. eating crap

over salted, industrial food isn't worth it.
if YOLO, have something good prepared by a real cook.

[dem in texas]

8. Yes! Over-salted

We only ate there one time and the food was way too salty. Never went back. Rather go to my favorite "meat and three". Better food and cheaper.

[TheDonnasRule]

9. I am not as sophisticated as you...these "non-real" restaurants are fine dining for me.

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. Taste is in the tongue of the taster...

One man's trash is another...

Oh heck. Never mind. I drink my Cabernet by the teaglass, from a box.

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. On ice, no doubt!

[cherokeeprogressive]

35. What do you think I am... a Heathen?

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. NO! I think you have altitude sickness!

Actually, wine in a box is COMPLETELY underrated.

There is much virtue to be found in the exclusion of air during the course of consumption.

[FrodosPet]

10. Are you buying?

Can you give me a ride? Where are we going?

By "real restaurants", you are not talking about tiny portions of foo-foo food are you?

[underahedgerow]

12. Those mega-portions on every American plate are what's causing the obesity epidemic and

the countless health problems related to being overweight, not the least of which include diabetes, crippling knee and joint problems, heart disease, etc.

A portion of meat for example, should never be more than 100 grams, or smaller than your fist.

I like small portions, or 'foo-foo' food. I get to taste and enjoy a variety of flavors rather than a slab o' meat and pile of fake potatoes.

Humans used to need larger portions when they were active and working from sun up to sun down. Now, everyone just sits around all day.

No more than 2000 calories per day for an active person, and about 1200 calories per day once you hit 40. The body metabolizes food at a much slower rate with age. We have to adjust our intake accordingly, or else we gain weight. I used to be able to eat 3 huge meals a day in my 20's, and I LOVE food. Now, I have to limit myself to one primary meal a day and small treats and seasonal fruit for snacks. That's life!

It's easier and cheaper to control portions when I cook and eat at home.

[snooper2]

15. Americans are fat because they are lazy and don't exercise

[LanternWaste]

17. One imagines that reason X exists in addition to rather in place of reason Y.

One imagines that reason X exists in addition to rather in place of reason Y, regardless of our biases.

[snooper2]

19. many factors including drinking billions of gallons of soda every year...

as well as the rise in lazy machines...





Proof is in the pictures

[underahedgerow]

25. I disagree, to a point. You don't have to be fast moving to be normal sized. They eat too

much, plain and simple. Too much fake crap, not enough fruit and veg, too much garbage soda crap instead of water.

I know energetic people who are heavy, and it's because they eat too much food and too much of the wrong food. I even know a guy who's very active, swims, walks a lot, eats mostly vegetarian, and he's still overweight... because he's eating too MUCH food, even if it's very healthy. He isn't convinced of this yet, I imagine it will sink in eventually, that 3 breakfasts, a huge lunch and a huge dinner, even if its sauteed veggies, a small amount of pasta, some smoked salmon with cream cheese, all healthy in parts, but not so healthy when consumed in too much volume.

I guess the people who want to figure it out, will, eventually. More full length mirrors in the house make a big difference.

For example, I know this bag of peanut m&ms will make my ass fat. So I'll try to stretch it out over a week. Wish me luck.

[edhopper]

14. not a all

but interesting that people who think that any place but Applebee's and Olive Garden is an expensive haute restaurant.

The show Diners, Drive ins & Dives has shown hundreds of family restaurants with food from real people that are often cheaper than those chains.

[snooper2]

16. You have to keep in mind a lot of people live in towns with shitty selections

Not everyone can just travel to downtown Plano TX and enjoy some Lockharts ...hmm- getting close to lunch

[edhopper]

20. that looks

sooooo good!

[underahedgerow]

26. I don't find that appealing. Most people can't cook very well, that's why I learned to

cook for myself. I AM the baby back ribs Queen, champion of all time cooker.

[PersonNumber503602]

29. Ahh Texas BBQ...

Despite living in Texas for awhile now, I could never get into it. Like it looks really good, but it just doesn't do it for me like it does everyone else I seem to know. I've been to many different little places too, but ehnnn. Oh well, maybe someday I will acquire the taste.

[OriginalGeek]

31. Texas BBQ brisket is heaven to me

All other BBQ is judged against Webb's BBQ (where I worked as a young'un in high school). Out here in Florida there's some that come close and some that fail utterly and completely. But those that fail on brisket can still do a good baby-back rib or pulled pork. I just don't love those like I love BBQ Brisket and hot beans and two slices of white bread.

[TexasTowelie]

33. Don't forget the BBQ sauce.

My mom made the best sauce with ketchup, brown sugar, onion and worcestershire sauce in it. It was great whether it was hot or cold.

[OriginalGeek]

34. That sounds similar to my MIL's

I was surprised when I went for dinner at my girlfriend's parents house here in FL and she had a ketchup bottle of her own BBQ sauce on the table. It may have been a deciding factor in me asking GF to marry me lol. It was certainly a mark in the plus column.

I never did find out the whole recipe. But yeah, Texas BBQ sauce is the best. I don;t dig the Carolina mustard sauces. Even when eating pork I use a Texas style sauce.

I wish I had made a point of getting Ol' Micky Webb's recipe. He and the restaurant are long gone now. (the building is still there but owned by someone else now. I visited a few years ago when I was in Dallas for work. They did a good plate of food but I was hoping Micky was still there to tell him thanks for the good high school job).

[whatthehey]

32. And you see Sysco et al deliver to them too.

Why people automatically assume smaller independent joints have better food than chains I have no idea. A vanishingly small number do anything different than buy from the same suppliers on lower discounts, use either the same or inferior equipment, and hire from the same labor pool. But that same smug cliqueish idiocy that makes middle schoolers hate "cool" bands who become popular carries on into adulthood I guess.

[edhopper]

37. enjoy your oversalted

factory cooked meal at Applebees

[linuxman]

4. Hope they make it through.

I kind of like them.

[greytdemocrat]

7. I have had many

excellent meals at this chain.

I also hope they make it.

[catbyte]

13. I made the mistake of going to one a couple of years ago. The bill for 3 of us was almost $100 for a

mediocre meal with watered down drinks and no appetizers. That's way too pricey for a crappy meal in a "casual" restaurant.

[edhopper]

21. according to some here

you are just an uppity snob for wanting decent, real food.

[catbyte]

22. I wouldn't have minded if the food had been good--I don't mind paying for a good experience.

And I'm not a snob--I had one of the best olive burgers I ever had in my life last weekend at the Nip n Sip Drive In in Lansing, MI. It was an ACTUAL drive-in where you order through a tinny speaker & they bring the tray to your car. It cost $2.90. Now THAT was good eating, along with battered onion rings & a root beer float. For 2 of us, it cost $9.58 including a $2.00 tip.

Heaven!

I don't begrudge those who like Logans--maybe I just had a shitty, lukewarm meal that time and it wasn't the norm. But for $30, I expected a whole lot better.

[edhopper]

28. I find I can always get

a better meal for less than the Chains

[Mosby]

18. Never heard of them

[A HERETIC I AM]

24. Logans, Texas Roadhouse, Outback, Longhorn.....

All cut from the same cloth.

[whatthehey]

27. And yet BWW continues growing rapidly

As do its many clones.

The secret is not difficult. Simple, high profit limited menu with kid appeal, at least a couple of available beers beyond basic macroswill, plus dozens of mainsail sized TVs for the jock wannabes and (pretend) usedtabes. License to print money.

[OriginalGeek]

30. The problem with Logan's Roadhouse

is that they recently opened up a Texas Roadhouse closer to me and TR has better chicken-fried steak and more beer I like.


the Logan's is close to work though so we occasionally go for lunch and I get a salad and eat a few pounds of yeast rolls.

[They_Live]

38. I've been there 3 times in my life

because we keep getting gift cards from my wife's boss. They can never cook the meat the way I request. Well done does not mean medium rare. How hard can it be to make it well done? And the same issue over three visits spanning 2 years or so?