|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Texas-style barbecue restaurant Armadillo Willy’s BBQ recently shut down its Dublin location, following years of reduced sales for the local company also impacted by inflation.
Its shuttering of the Dublin site April 19 preceded three additional closures across the Bay Area this month, including restaurants in Blossom Hill, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara.
The company is now down to one location based in San Mateo, with catering still available throughout the Bay Area, according to the restaurant’s website.
“The past five years have been a very difficult road for our restaurant,” CEO Kevin Roberts wrote in a June 17 statement announcing this month’s closures. “The restaurant never seemed to regain traction in returning to pre-pandemic sales levels.”
Known for serving wood-fired barbecue for over 40 years, Armadillo Willy’s saw erratic business patterns following the pandemic, Roberts said in a statement.
“It makes me very sad that this painful step must be taken,” Roberts said of the most recent closures. “I have done everything I can to avoid this outcome.”
Armadillo Willy’s representatives did not respond for comment as of publication time.
It is not immediately clear what might take over the restaurant’s former site at 4480 Tassajara Road.
