{"id":334191,"date":"2026-06-12T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334191\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:48:09","slug":"on-the-border-restaurant-to-close-all-corporate-texas-locations-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334191\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Border restaurant to close all corporate Texas locations on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-1064580522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Low-angle view of sign for On the Border, a Southwestern and Mexican cuisine restaurant in Dublin, California, October 10, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection\/Gado\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">IRVING, Texas &#8211; On The Border Mexican Grill &amp; Cantina will close all of its company-owned restaurants as the Tex-Mex chain evaluates options for the future of the brand.<\/p>\n<p>   Affected restaurant locations nationwide <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GCT_Thanksgiving_Day_closures-5f1f65e47e8c350ae07dd8bf_1_Jul_28_2020_24_08_39_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OTB Hospitality said in a statement that company-owned locations will cease operations by the end of the day on Friday, June 12, after what it described as a thorough review of the business.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;This decision follows a thorough evaluation of the business and was not made lightly,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;We are currently evaluating the future of the On The Border brand and exploring a range of strategic options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The company said its immediate focus is supporting employees affected by the closures and conducting an orderly shutdown of operations.<\/p>\n<p> Which On The Border locations will stay open? <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OTB Hospitality said franchise-operated restaurants in South Dakota, Florida, Nevada, California and South Korea will remain open.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The announcement comes about a year after Houston-based Pappas Restaurants acquired the Dallas-founded chain following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The company has not announced how many locations will be affected by the closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by OTB Hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/restaurants\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurants<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/irving\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irving<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/business\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Low-angle view of sign for On the Border, a Southwestern and Mexican cuisine restaurant in Dublin, California,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[910,581,3613,1266,242,223,354,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-334191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-business","tag-dallas-county","tag-food-drink","tag-irving","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-restaurants","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}