Smokey Bones chain returning to Avon after 15-year hiatus, but with ghost-kitchen twist

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6 thoughts on “Smokey Bones chain returning to Avon after 15-year hiatus, but with ghost-kitchen twist

  1. Quote: Smokey Bones is now owned by Boca Raton, Florida-based Sun Capital.

    Isn’t Sun Capital the company that raped and then buried Marsh supermarkets?

  2. Correct by Robert Riesbeck with Sun Capital who was later appointed as CEO of HH Gregg. Can’t remember if Riesbeck was responsible for the idiocy of expanding into furniture but we all know the unfortunate result of a once well run appliance chain.

    1. Yes, Bob Riesbeck is the guy you call to kill a business. After HH Gregg he went to Pier 1.

  3. Don’t quite understand the appeal of a ghost kitchen operating within an existing restaurant. Buco Di Peppo is running MrBeast restaurants in the back of their kitchen but I don’t quite understand how a kitchen used to kicking Italian-American food is going to also be adequately equipped to cook burgers and fries.

    Now clustertruck, a restaurant that only does ghost kichen +delivery and doesn’t have to deal with dine-in, that’s different and their model works. But I just don’t quite get existing restaurants also having virtual brands.

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