OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — Fazoli’s has shuttered another West Michigan restaurant this month.
The Italian fast-food brand’s location at 570 Baldwin St. in Jenison closed earlier in December, according to social media posts. A sign posted on the door of the now empty restaurant directed customers to the nearest Fazoli’s location at 2521 Alpine Ave. in Walker.
The Jenison restaurant’s Facebook page lists the location as “permanently closed.”
Several commenters on social media said they weren’t surprised the restaurant closed, noting an overall lack of cleanliness.
In September, Fazoli’s also permanently closed a location at 4615 West Main St. in Kalamazoo. There are just three remaining West Michigan locations in Walker, Battle Creek and Muskegon, according to the store finder on fazolis.com.
The closures come amid deepening financial problems for Fazoli’s parent company, California-based FAT Brands, Inc.
UMB Bank, acting on behalf of the company’s lenders, has demanded FAT Brands immediately pay nearly $1.3 billion in securitized debt, according to an acceleration notice filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in November.
FAT Brands, however, does not have the cash on hand to pay back the debt and warned that further action from the lenders could force the company to reorganize through bankruptcy, the filing states.
The company did not immediately state whether the closures were related to its financial issues.
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