49-year-old popular steakhouse chain closes 41 locations

High labour and nutrient costs person severely impacted the edifice sector, with caller economical setbacks forcing establishments retired of business.

The rising outgo of beef has been detrimental for U.S. steakhouses starring immoderate fashionable restaurants to permanently adjacent locations.

An summation successful the outgo of beef led to steak prices spiking 16% to $12.73 per lb successful March 2026, according to information from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This affected paper prices and discouraged immoderate diners from eating successful steakhouses, reducing edifice revenue.

Several steakhouses person closed locations successful the U.S. implicit the past 3 months including Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, McCormick & Schmick's, Stoney River Steakhouse and Grill, and Quaker Steak & Lube.

Claim Jumper closes different determination

And now, iconic eating concatenation Claim Jumper Steakhouse & Bar closed its 41st edifice since 2010, arsenic it softly unopen down its San Bernardino, Calif., determination connected June 23.

Claim Jumper thanked its customers connected its website and connected the entranceway to the edifice for the accidental to service them, according to Daily Breeze. The institution has removed the San Bernardino location, which opened successful 1999, from its website.

The edifice concatenation did not springiness a crushed for closing the location.

Claim Jumper's locator leafage connected its website lists 4 remaining locations successful Costa Mesa, Calif.; Buena Park, Calif., which is crossed the thoroughfare from Knotts Berry Farm taxable park; San Diego; and Tualatin, Ore.

Chain operates CJ restaurants successful casinos

The chain's proprietor Landry's Inc. operates 3 Claim Jumper affiliated restaurants, which are branded CJ and are located successful Golden Nugget Hotel & Casinos, including Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nev.

Claim Jumper besides closed its restaurants successful Henderson, Nev., successful April 2026, and La Mesa, and Temecula, Calif., successful 2024.

The steakhouse concatenation was founded successful Los Alamitos, Calif., successful 1977 by Craig Nickoloff, who sold the bulk of the institution to a backstage equity steadfast successful 2005.

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Claim Jumper's owners filed for Chapter 11 extortion successful 2010 and sold the concatenation retired of bankruptcy to edifice proprietor Landry's Inc. erstwhile the institution had 45 locations successful 8 states. Restaurant relation and existent property institution Kelly Companies took implicit absorption of astir of the Claim Jumper locations.

Conagra licenses the Claim Jumper marque for frozen foods that are sold successful supermarkets and are a abstracted entity from the edifice chain.