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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Longtime Burger Chain Red Robin Closing 15 Locations Across the U.S.
There's something comforting and familiar about dining at a longtime burger restaurant. The U.S. has plenty of established burger chains, and those restaurants make sure the traditional hamburger is available to Americans nationwide. There are 84,336 burger restaurants in the U.S. as of 2025, according to IBIS World, so there's a lot of competition in that space. Also, the number of burger restaurants in the U.S. grew 0.9% per year on average between 2019 and 2024, IBIS World states. So, the burger industry is a competitive one, and now, one longtime burger chain has announced that it's closing restaurants across the U.S. this year. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has already closed six of its company-owned restaurants in the first quarter and one franchise location. Now, the company plans to close down eight more company-owned spots in 2025, Todd Wilson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, announced on May 29 during an earnings call. On the company earnings call, Wilson said Red Robin currently has 401 company-owned restaurants and 90 franchise locations. By the end of the year, he expects that number to be 393 company-owned restaurants. Wilson did not state which locations are scheduled to close or reveal any plans of closing more franchise locations. Also, Red Robin, which was founded in 1969, did not open any new locations in the first quarter of 2025 or 2024, the earnings report stated. In April, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers named a new president and CEO in David A. Pace. He commented that Red Robin is making a "comeback," but it's not there yet. "We are far from claiming victory and there is still more work to be done as we continue the comeback journey of Red Robin," Pace said. On a positive note, Wilson said that he doesn't expect any additional menu price increases for 2025. "We anticipate absorbing the current expected impact of tariffs as we prioritize maintaining value for our guests," he said. In the same earnings report, Red Robin also posted unexpected profit, which is a good sign for the Burger Chain Red Robin Closing 15 Locations Across the U.S. first appeared on Men's Journal on May 31, 2025
Daily Telegraph
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Telegraph
Payne Cup live stream: Kirwan State High v St Patrick's College, Mackay
Don't miss out on the headlines from Rugby League Live Stream. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Aaron Payne Cup will kick off with a bang on Thursday with a rematch of the 2024 decider between the Kirwan Bears and St Patrick's, Mackay. The grand final replay is the headline act from three enticing games of rugby league at Kirwan State High School as the Queensland Schoolgirls Cup and Cowboys Challenge both begin. The Payne Cup clash will be free to watch live, but a full digital subscription will be needed to access the live streams of the Cowboys Challenge and Schoolgirls Cup. Every match of the elite Queensland schools rugby league competitions will be exclusively streamed on KommunityTV in 2025. Kirwan State High will kick off its Payne Cup title defence in style in a grand final rematch with St Patrick's College. Picture: Michaela Harlow Kirwan Bears head coach Todd Wilson said their season opener was about more than just the all-important two competition points. 'We haven't played a game yet, so (the players) have a lot to prove,' Wilson said. 'We've certainly got some high hopes for a number of players, but we'll just see what happens when we play St Pat's. We're expecting them to be a real quality opposition. 'We're expecting a tough game. That Capricornia side at the state champs had a lot of St Pat's kids and they pushed the best of those southern sides – they've done well through the Mal Meninga and Cyril Connell so we're certainly expecting a tough game.' The Bears have every reason to be cautious about Thursday's blockbuster season-opener. A number of St Patrick's stars – including dynamic five-eighth Adam McSherry, Mark Morrow and Ryan John – return for another season of Aaron Payne Cup after being among the competition's standout performers last year. St Patrick's playmaker Adam McSherry will lead the school's charge toward the Aaron Payne Cup in 2025. Picture: Michaela Harlow The terrific trio have only gotten bigger and better in the past 12 months and St Pat's coach Shane Mau said the team would enter the competition with a focus on defence. Mau said his players would need to be switched on from the get-go to stop the Bears running rampant. 'They're always very tough. They're usually a very big side and very mobile,' Mau said. 'So we'll be concentrating on defence – that's probably going to be our main focus for this, and probably for our first couple of games: really big defensive efforts. 'We've probably got the strike power with our attack, but defence is going to win this one.' The Cowboys Challenge fixture kicks off the day's action at 10.20am, followed by the schoolgirls at 11.20am and Aaron Payne Cup at 12.20pm. REPLAYS Kirwan SHS v St Patrick's College - 2025 Cowboys Challenge Round 1 Kirwan State High School survived a late flurry of tries to claim a thrilling 12-10 victory over St Patrick's, Mackay, to kick off the Cowboys Challenge season with a win. St Patrick's scored back-to-back tries late in the contest to come within two points of the Cubs, but they were unable to land the killer blow. Both teams were able to string together some good sets after a number of early errors in slippery conditions, and it took a moment of individual brilliance to open the scoring. The deadlock broke midway through the first half when Kirwan winger Jacob Peachey caught the ball on the full at speed and raced 80m before he was brought down. The Cubs spun the ball to the right and opened space for centre Jeffrey Tugai to step his way over the line and slam the ball down to give his side the 6-0 it would carry into the break. Kirwan co-captain Malakai Martin broke the line to give the Cubs some great field position early in the second half and a dominant tackle from the rangy lock and Sonny Meti forced an error from the visitors. It didn't take long for Jarrad Skiba to crash over with a strong run close to the line and Kirwan took a 12-0 lead following Travel Ngatuakana's conversion. St Patrick's hit the scoreboard when hooker Mason Muscat poked a perfectly weighted grubber into the in-goal and five-eighth Harper Shields won the race to the ball. Another quickfire try – this time from left backrower and co-captain Tom Mulherin – gave goalkicking prop Lucas Haack the chance to level the scores from the sideline, but his conversion sailed across the face of goal. A desperate trysaving tackle from marker by Kirwan prop Eti Tepulolo secured the win, dragging Muscat down after he looked to have broken the line on the final play of the game. KIRWAN: 12 (Jeffrey Tugai, Jarrad Skiba tries; Travel Ngatuakana (2) goals) ST PATRICK'S: 10 (Harper Shields, Tom Mulherin tries; Lucas Haack goal) Originally published as 2025 Aaron Payne Cup live stream: Kirwan State High v St Patrick's College, Mackay
