Modern Times closing multiple locations immediately

[jesseix]

For anyone that's a fan of Modern Times beers, looks like they are having some major financial problems and are closing 4 of their brewpubs immediately.
Link to their announcement about it, and also a thread on BA with some ongoing discussion.

HARD DECISIONS AND THE PATH FORWARD | Modern Times Beer

Today is the most difficult day we’ve ever had at Modern Times. Over the last two unimaginably challenging pandemic years, we’ve done everything we could to keep all of our newly-opened locations afloat in a landscape we never could have imagined when we began building them. As new leadership...

www.moderntimesbeer.com

Modern Times to close Portland, Oakland, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles locations

Whoa. From the Modern Times blog: http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/blog/hard-decisions-and-the-path-forward HARD DECISIONS AND THE PATH FORWARD Today is the most difficult day we’ve ever had at...

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[TexLaw]

I hate to see that, but it's all over. Lots of folks had just completed expansions when covid hit. There's a bit of culling going on, as well.

One of my favorite beer spots also has closed a number of locations. It's a small chain in Texas and the Southeast (with a little Midwest). They grew slowly and deliberately over a good 25 years, but the reaper's scythe is sharp and wide. The locations that were doing only so-so couldn't stand the covid sorting.

 

[Doc4]

Modern Times a victim of modern times.