In March, they established a goal of opening more than 50 restaurants in Southwest Ohio. Five months later, they are struggling to get to seven.
Big Boy Restaurant Group, a Michigan-based company that entered the Cincinnati market by leasing empty Frisch’s locations, is facing low customer counts in its four Hamilton County locations, based on social media commentary and site visits by the WCPO 9 I-Team.
In addition, Frisch’s former landlord has told investors it has yet to finalize leases for 28 Dolly’s locations it announced in February. And Hamilton County inspection records show a Dolly’s customer tested positive for salmonella in June, but the health department did not find “conclusive evidence” that Dolly’s was “the causative facility.”…