{"id":266901,"date":"2026-08-17T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:06:07","slug":"national-restaurant-chain-closes-2-pittsburgh-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266901\/","title":{"rendered":"National Restaurant Chain Closes 2 Pittsburgh Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantbusinessonline.com\/operations\/noodles-company-double-its-planned-restaurant-closures-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The company last August<\/a> said it planned to close between 12 and 17 underperforming locations in 2026. But Noodles &amp; Company in January revised that number dramatically, saying 30 to 35 restaurants would be shuttered. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These actions are intended to strengthen the overall health of thee brand and our financial position, helping to ensure we are well-positioned for profitable growth and long-term value creation for our shareholders,\u201d company CEO Joe Christina said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company last August said it planned to close between 12 and 17 underperforming locations in 2026. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-266901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266901","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=266901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}