I remember when the Bennigan's in my hometown closed a few years ago. I still don't know the difference between Bennigans, Ruby Tuesdays and Fridays.

 NEW YORK - Restaurant chains Bennigan's and Steak & Ale have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection and stores owned by its parent company will shut their doors.

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In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing, a company seeks to liquidate its assets and shut down.

Employees at a Bennigan's in Plano, Texas, were greeted by a sign Tuesday on the front door reading "WE ARE CLOSED. THANK YOU." Next door, a Steak & Ale sat empty in a deserted parking lot but there was no sign posted.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_bi_ge/bennigan_s_bankruptcy_filing

This has been coming for years. 

I worked at a Steak and Ale in Miami my junior and senior years of high school (and again in college) and they were always threatening to close.   When I moved to Tennessee about five years ago, I worked at a Bennigan's, which randomly shut its doors one day without any sort of warning or severance pay.  The managers just walked in and shut everything down.  Didn't even bother to call their employees.  Had I not been told by one of my regulars later that night, I would have been greeted by a sign in the window telling me I no longer had a job.