One of the Bay Area's best-known restaurant groups has suddenly shut down all of its restaurants, bringing an end to more than three decades in business and leaving hundreds of employees without jobs. Vine Hospitality announced this week that it is permanently closing all seven of its restaurants across the Bay Area, citing an increasingly difficult operating environment and unsuccessful efforts to secure additional [...]

Of Hawaii, Alaska and New Hampshire, the Granite State may have the clearest path to eventually landing a Buc-ee's. New Hampshire has busy interstate highways, heavy tourism, no general state sales tax and millions of travelers moving between Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and Canada. A Buc-ee's would almost certainly attract crowds. But the chain has not announced a New Hampshire store, selected a site or revealed any [...]

For decades, a trip to the mall wasn't complete without stopping for a meal. Whether it was celebrating a successful shopping trip or grabbing lunch between stores, mall restaurants were once a destination in their own right. Today, many of those familiar names are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Sbarro has moved beyond the mall For years, Sbarro was synonymous with mall food courts, serving oversized slices of [...]

West Virginia recently lost two locally rooted restaurants within the span of just a few days. Their departures join the restaurant closures that have shocked customers across America, but these losses feel especially personal because both businesses were closely connected to their communities. One was a hometown pizzeria whose history stretched back more than four decades. The other was a downtown Charleston gathering [...]

"I'm in Texas and the locations near me have really turned bad. They were once really good and fresh, now the 20-25 minute wait is for old tasting and low quality burgers and fries and breakfast." That Reddit comment represents one end of the Whataburger opinion spectrum in 2025 - and it's worth noting the other end exists too. By most accounts, Whataburger is not struggling. But in Texas, where the chain's identity runs [...]

"I stopped going because their food kept getting worse. I used to love their steakburgers, but they would decrease in size every few months. Their shakes got downright unpleasant." That Reddit comment captures a frustration that runs through Steak 'n Shake's recent history — a sense that the chain's attempt to reinvent itself has come at the cost of what made it worth visiting in the first place. Steak 'n Shake was a [...]