
Popular Texas Steakhouse Now Has Zero Locations Left In Texas
Imagine being a popular nationwide steakhouse that is headquartered right here in the beef state of Texas, and yet your empire does not include a single one of your own restaurant chains anywhere within the massively wide borders of our quarter of a million square miles of Lone Star State. On paper the equation of a steak focused restaurant with their home office in the Dallas and Fort Worth metro should have new walls going up more frequently than you find a Starbucks in the state of Washington.
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As you can read in the above link, just because you have a great company that is based in the most business friendly state in the United States, does not mean you cannot fall on challenging times, and find yourself searching for solutions. At the same time, Texas Road House is from Kentucky, yet there are 4 times as many stores here, but we are also more than 6 times larger in population.

Maybe that is where Ponderosa Steakhouses went wrong? Maybe they should have stamped their title with something a bit more Texas?
Popular Texas Steakhouse Now Has Zero Locations Left In Texas
Ponderosa is actually a combined company with Bonanza Steakhouse, and at one time grew to 700 locations. Now, only about 20 locations remains in the United States, and about 3 times that many are somehow thriving in Puerto Rico.
Plano is the headquarters, but the parent company is the massive restaurant company FAT Brands based in Beverly Hills, CA.
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