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Union City Hometown Buffet Closes After Owner Files for Bankruptcy, Shuts Down 81 Restaurants

Buffets, Inc., the owner of Hometown Buffet and other restaurant companies, filed for bankruptcy earlier this week and ordered 81 locations to be closed promptly.

If you were planning to have Saturday morning breakfast at on Decoto Road, save the time and go straight to Newark.

According to the Sacramento Business Journal, the Union City Hometown Buffet closed Thursday. It is one of 81 restaurants that were ordered to be promptly shut down by its parent company, Buffets, Inc., a Minnesota-based company that runs several chains across the country.

A Union City Patch reader said he went there for lunch Friday afternoon only to find a sign on the door that said the store would be permanently closed.

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The Newark location, however, has apparently been spared.

Buffet’s Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this week and announced the list of closures Friday.

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According to a list published on the Business Journal website, Union City was one of three California locations, along with Long Beach and Lancaster, that were closed.


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