TGI Fridays, DFW Airport

TGI Friday’s Sells Dallas Airport Outlets for $34.5 Million
TGI Friday’s Inc. has struck a deal to sell its outlets in the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and a handful of other corporate-owned locations in Maryland to restaurant operator Mera Corp. for $34.
TGI Fridays Will Sell 9 Locations To Pay Down Debt
A Mexico-based operator of restaurants at airports and cruise terminals outbid former TGI Fridays CEO Ray Blanchette by $2M.
TGI Fridays sells DFW Airport restaurants for $34.5 million
North Texas-based casual restaurant chain TGI Fridays has agreed to sell its locations in the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport as well as four other corporate-owned locations in Maryland to restaurant operator Mera Corp. for $34.5 million.
TGI Fridays gets bankruptcy court approval to sell 9 locations
Bankrupt restaurant chain TGI Fridays received court approval on Thursday to sell nine of its 39 corporate-owned locations, raising $34.5 million to repay its creditors.
TGI Fridays franchisee to acquire bankrupt restaurants for $34.5M
Cancun-based Mera Corp. outbid former Fridays’ CEO Ray Blanchette for a group of nine locations, including five at the Dallas-Fort Worth
TGI Fridays ex-CEO returns as company works on bankruptcy
The former executive’s firm, Sugarloaf Hospitality, has bid on several of the casual-dining company’s remaining locations
TGI Fridays to sell DFW Airport locations in $34.5M deal
Dallas-based TGI Fridays has announced the sale of its five corporately owned locations at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as part of its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.
TGI Fridays’ ex-CEO—who introduced sushi to a restaurant chain famous for potato skins and mozzarella sticks—will step up to oversee hundreds of locations post-ban…
Ray Blanchette, who served as TGI Fridays’ CEO from 2018 to 2023, will manage more than 400 locations of the chain. TGI ...
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Mera Global outbids ex-Fridays CEO for airport locations in $34.5M auction
Mera Global LLC, a Mexico-based company, has been awarded the purchase of five TGI Fridays units at the Dallas-Fort Worth ...
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Restaurants could face a rocky 2025
Restaurants generally did not have a very good 2024. Some forecasts suggest 2025 could be just as bad, or worse. Red Lobster ...
'Epic mess' at TGI Fridays examined by Wall Street Journal
Things didn't look good when TGI Fridays Inc., a once-iconic casual dining chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November ...
TGI Fridays Ex-CEO Blanchette to Take Over Chain’s Management
Ray Blanchette’s company Sugarloaf Hospitality to manage over 400 franchised restaurants following TGI Fridays’ bankruptcy.