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Article: Ground Round Closes 60 Branches Abruptly
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- February 17, 2004
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JUSTIN POPE, AP Business Writer
AP Online
02-17-2004
Dateline: BOSTON
The Ground Round restaurant chain pioneered casual dining in the 1970s and '80s. But the casual way about 60 of the chain's 130 restaurants were abruptly shut down last week left thousands of workers not only jobless but angry.
"I've been with the company 11 years and I felt like I got kicked in the teeth," said Bob Laudo, general manager of the Ground Round in Macedonia, Ohio. "The way they left it left everybody pretty salty."
Laudo's was one of the company-owned Ground Round restaurants nationwide that were preparing for a busy night last Friday when they got word on a conference call to kick out the customers, close the ...