{"id":242577,"date":"2026-07-13T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:27:08","slug":"upper-darby-restaurant-closes-abruptly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242577\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby restaurant closes abruptly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Upper Darby restaurant closed over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins Restaurant and Bakery in the 700 block of Lansdowne Avenue near State Road closed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, an employee, who declined to give their name, said staff had been offered positions at other Perkins restaurants in the area, including Northeast Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Perkins Restaurant and Bakery in Upper Darby has closed. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)\" width=\"4032\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_6414.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"1845111\" \/>Perkins Restaurant and Bakery in Upper Darby has closed. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)<\/p>\n<p>The front door was chained and a sign stating \u201cthis location is closed\u201d was posted in the window.<\/p>\n<p>The chain operates 290 restaurants in 32 states and two Canadian provinces, 85 company-owned and 205 franchised units.<\/p>\n<p>A request for comment from the company has not been returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upper Darby restaurant closed over the weekend. Perkins Restaurant and Bakery in the 700 block of Lansdowne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-242577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}