{"id":335076,"date":"2026-06-13T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335076\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:27:30","slug":"popular-tex-mex-chain-on-the-border-closing-restaurants-across-the-country-heres-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335076\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Tex-Mex chain On The Border closing restaurants across the country. Here\u2019s where"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(Gray News) &#8211; A year after filing for bankruptcy, a national Tex-Mex chain is closing locations across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On The Border Mexican Grill &amp; Cantina will close all of its company-owned locations by the end of the day Friday, according to a company spokesperson for OTB Hospitality. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"FILE -- On The Border restaurant. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4R6SOJLJGZBPBOGSK4SPVDHMJI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>FILE &#8212; On The Border restaurant. (WHNS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis decision follows a thorough evaluation of the business and was not made lightly,\u201d the spokesperson wrote in a statement. \u201cWe are currently evaluating the future of the On The Border brand and exploring a range of strategic options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Franchises in California, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota and South Korea will remain open and operate independently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veritaglobal.net\/ontheborder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed for bankruptcy<\/a> in 2025 and was then bought by the Texas-based company Pappas Restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Gray News) &#8211; A year after filing for bankruptcy, a national Tex-Mex chain is closing locations across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4243,910,270,918,168,170,169,103450,67,3090],"class_list":["post-335076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-bankruptcy","tag-business","tag-closure","tag-economy","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-on-the-border","tag-restaurant","tag-tex-mex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335076","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=335076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}