Kings Family Restaurants closes five Pittsburgh-area locations

Kings Family Restaurants, a western Pennsylvania staple for a half-century, abruptly closed five of its area restaurants on Sunday.

The company shut its locations in Marshall Township near Cranberry, South Fayette, Harmar, Imperial and Altoona. Signs on the front doors of the restaurants noted they were closed and stated that some employees might have moved to other Kings locations.

The move took the 130 workers affected by the closures by surprise.

.“Too overwhelming to even describe,” former Kings worker Kimberly Scheller told KDKA-TV. “II could hear worse things in my life, you know and God never closes one door without opening another. That’s the way I got to look at it.”

Kings was founded in 1967 in North Versailles. Two years ago, the firm was sold to Kelly Capital of San Diego, a private equity firm, which stated at the time there were no immediate plans to close any Kings locations.

The company continues to operate 24 western Pennsylvania restaurants and one in eastern Ohio.

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