4 Burger King Restaurants Are Closing Forever

There are 4 Burger King restaurants shutting in Maine. The fast-food restaurants sealed some of their doors perpetually on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Due to a house disappearing a authorization agreement — 4 locations had to close.

The COVID-19 pestilence has caused many businesses to close. However, places like Burger King have generally fared well.

Policy researcher during a left-leaning Maine Center for Economic Policy, James Myall, settled that they have fared improved than other kinds of restaurants.

They’ve customarily been improved placed to adapt, with existent drive-thru options. In some cases, they also have some-more resources if they’re partial of a inhabitant chain, compared to a tiny eccentric operation.

Steve Hewins — President and CEO of Hospitality — concluded with Myall’s statement.

Drive thru sales have excelled, since it has been deemed protected by scarcely all customers.

Hewins serve settled that some places — like Chipotle — have altered their whole operations to contactless smoothness or pick-up.  Places like those have a clever direct and good compensate for all of their workers.

However, due to COVID-19 many businesses — not only places like Burger King — have had to tighten their doors. This has placed massacre on people sport for work.

Closing Burger King Locations in Maine

The 4 Burger King restaurants that are shutting are owned by Steve Wegner of Orono, Maine. The shutting stores are located on Camden Street in Rockland, Hogan Road in Bangor, Stillwater Avenue in Orono, and High Street in Ellsworth.

Between a 4 restaurants, there were roughly 80 to 100 people employed, according to a deputy for Wegner. The chairman serve settled that there are dual other Burger King locations still operating. These locations have opposite owners and are located on Union Street in Bangor and on Wilson Street in Brewer.

Wegner had hoped a owners would be peaceful to replenish a 4 Burger King’s underneath a opposite owner. However, a association did not determine to a terms, according to Wegner’s representative.

We attempted until a really final second. This was a final thing a owners wanted — to put people out of work.

The deputy serve explained that Wegner has been in bad health. She also pragmatic that a restaurants could have kept “running like a well-oiled machine” but his management.

Written by Sheena Robertson

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Bangor Daily: 4 Maine Burger King restaurants are shutting for good; by Charles Eichacker

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