Lexington fans of the Frisch’s Big Boy will have until the end of the week to grab their favorite fudge cake.
Local employees and customers were told Sunday that the Harrodsburg Road, Hamburg, and Winchester Frisch’s locations would close the week of Dec. 9.
Kim Brown, a server at the Hamburg location said she was told by corporate about the closure over a phone call Sunday. She has worked with Frisch’s since 1998, she said.
“We have been crying with the customers,” Brown said Sunday. “I’ve raised three kids with this job.”
The Harrodsburg Road location will close on Wednesday, Winchester on Thursday and Hamburg on Friday, Brown said.
According to a letter obtained by the Herald-Leader, Frisch’s landlord, NNN REIT, sent a notice on Nov. 25 ordering the Lexington stores — at 1849 Alysheba Way and 1927 Harrodsburg Road — to vacate the buildings.
The landlord said that the restaurants, as well as 10 others in Kentucky, had defaulted on the rent owed and were ordered to vacate “within seven (7) days” or the landlord would pursue eviction and other legal action, including lawsuits for damages and filing a petition of involuntary bankruptcy.
No eviction notice apparently has been filed yet in Fayette County courts; no court date has been set. Brown said she was hopeful that the corporate office would wait until the court matter would be resolved, or at least, the end of the month.
The closures are the latest blow to the struggling Cincinnati-based restaurant chain. Many of the chain’s Ohio locations are already being evicted, and several have closed. Several vendors for the once-thriving restaurant filed suit recently in Ohio over unpaid bills including coffee and IT services.
In addition to Lexington, the other locations on the Kentucky closure list attached to the letter include:
▪ 843 Bypass Rd. in Winchester
▪ 1731 Patrick Dr. in Burlington
▪ 6808 Burlington Pike in Florence
▪ 7908 Dream St. in Florence
▪ 157 Keystone Crossroad Dr. in Shepherdsville
▪ 5010 Alexandria Pike in Cold Spring
▪ 2112 Declaration Dr. in Independence
▪ 4016 Dixie Highway in Erlanger
▪ 494 Orphanage Rd. in Fort Mitchell
▪ 408 Market Square Dr. in Maysville.
It’s unclear how many employees in Lexington would be impacted by the closures.
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