ShopHouse To Close All Locations, Including Westwood

WESTWOOD, CA -- Chipotle will close all 15 of its ShopHouse restaurants by the end of this week, including the one in Westwood.

Chipotle had said last year it was looking at options to sell off the Asian fusion chain. The Denver-based Mexican restaurant chain has been working to recover from a series of food scares that have sent sales plunging.

ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, which has locations mostly in Los Angeles County and the Washington D..C area, will close March 17.

"We now have a deal in place to sell the ShopHouse leases and believe that is the right decision at this time,” Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold told Nation’s Restaurant News, which first reported the closings

Current ShopHouse employees will be offered jobs at Chipotle and will be paid for a week beyond the restaurants' closings, he said.

Here are the locations in Los Angeles County that are closing:

• Hollywood 6333 Sunset Boulevard.
• Santa Monica 1401 3rd Street Promenade
• South Bay The Point at Rosecrans & Sepulveda 860 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
• Westwood 1059 Broxton Avenue.
• West Hollywood 8424 Beverly Blvd.

Photo courtesy ShopHouse