Charlie Brown’s Steakhouse shuts 20 restaurants

MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. - Some steak lovers will have to look elsewhere for their beef after CB Holding Corp. closed 20 Charlie Brown's Steakhouse restaurants and 10 Bugaboo Creek Steak House restaurants in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

A Charlie Brown's in Woodbury, the Gloucester County seat, will remain open, according to the company's website.

The restaurants, representing about one-third of the chain's tally, were underperforming, Charlie Brown's director of marketing Rich Covey told the Courier News of Bridgewater. The Mountainside-based company is still operating 29 Charlie Brown's locations, 20 Bugaboo Creek steakhouse restaurants and seven locations of the Office Beer Bar & Grill.

The company was looking to place employees from the closed restaurants in ones that are still open, Covey said.

The company plans to close five Charlie Brown's Steakhouse Pennsylvania locations (Allentown, Buckhorn, Harrisburg, Langhorne and York), 13 locations in New Jersey (Alpha, Blackwood, Clifton, Green Brook, Hackettstown, Highland Park, Hillsborough, Kingston, Matawan, Montclair, Piscataway, Tenafly and Union), and two in New York (Commack and Mohegan Lake).

In the Philadelphia region, Charlie Brown's Steakhouse will continue to operate in Woodbury, Maple Shade, Springfield (Delco), Mount Holly and Hamilton.

Bugaboo Creek Steak House will close all five Atlanta properties. There will also be five locations closed in Massachusetts.

The company will continue to operate its Bugaboo Creek Steak House in Franklin Mills, according to its website.

This is the second consecutive day that a company with Philadelphia-region sites has announced closings.

Discount retailer Loehmann's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday.

The chain has one store remaining in the Philadelphia region, in Moorestown. A company spokeswoman said that the Loehmann's in Drexel Hill was one of eight underperforming stores that closed last week.