Boston Market, once the darling of home-style takeout restaurants, is up to its chicken neck in lawsuits. Restaurant Dive reports that two of the company’s food distributors are suing for millions in unpaid bills. A refrigeration business is suing too. In Massachusetts, workers at multiple locations are suing for delayed and unpaid wages. And in Colorado, several landlords are suing for unpaid rent. In our area, Boston Market closed its doors on Randolph Road a few years back and was supposed to open a new location on Rockville Pike, but that project never materialized.
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james hudgins
it appears jingesh “jay” pandyah, the billionaire who bought boston market during the pandemic had a devious plan to pocket probably half to three quarters of a billion dollars while collapsing the restaurant chain. he took advantage of the eviction restrictions during covid to not pay rent on the locations, in many cases did not pay sales taxes, shut down their supply network, greatly reduced infrastructure of the corporation, shut down email chains between stores to reduce communication and so much more. last year revenue was about 375 million dollars. the stores have been buying food from the local market, costo Walmart etc. most of the boston market proprietary foods no longer seem to exist. it looks like his plan was to pocket a huge amount of money and allow the chain to collapse while filing bankruptcy to get out of the debts. research his past business dealings and the large number of lawsuits against him. big business corruption, bad ethics, and lack of morality abound with him. I find it difficult to believe there is not something illegal that he is doing here. currently there are interruptions across the entire chain with employee pay, irregularities in federal tax withholdings, and other oddities with vacation pay etc. please find a journalist to truly investigate this situation. over 300 locations with 14,000 employees being affected.
storereporter2023
Sounds like a good investigative story for a major news outlet. Hopefully someone will follow up!