MIAMI VALLEY — They moved into some former frisch’s restaurants, but after about six months in business Dolly’s is done in Ohio.
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Earlier this year the company told News Center 7 it planned to open 50 restaurants in our region.
Monday was a group’s first time they’d been to Dolly’s, it was also one of their last.
“We were here the last day that they said they were closing frisch’s. it was weird because I said, ‘oh my gosh, this is happening again.,” Deb Lester of greenville said.
Frisch’s had been a Miami Valley staple for years.
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As News Center 7 has previously reported, the landlord for dozens of locations said they got behind on rent.
The landlord filed eviction documents in court and those Frisch’s closed.
We’ve talked to the CEO of Big Boy restaurant group and Dolly’s burgers and shakes.
His company owns the rights and trade-mark rights for the Big Boy brand everywhere in the world except Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio.
Those four states are Frisch’s Big Boy territory.
There’s an ongoing legal battle and Big Boy restaurant group can’t operate under the Big Boy name in the Cincinnati and Dayton markets.
With an unresolved fight in court big boy restaurant group say it’s determined ”that continuing to operate under these conditions is no longer sustainable or beneficial for its employees or the brand."
A disappointment for the lunch crowd in Troy, Monday, but they’re more worried for the workers impacted.
“To have a job and then all of a sudden it’s ripped out from under you and three days you’re closing and you don’t know, ‘what am I going to do now?’ You know you think about them. I feel sorry for them,” Tammy Drees said.
News Center 7 spoke to people who work in the Troy location.
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