Pizzeria Uno could be latest in string of bankrupt restaurants

Not surprised that Midland LLC would go under. Midland restaurants are run like garbage.

When your #1 concern is food and labor costs, trying to get them just above 3rd world poverty levels. You are going out of business. Good service is the #1 rule of customer retention.

Hiring terrible workers, making half cooked pizzas that take an hour to get to your table is the #1 way to never have a person walk through your door again.

I won't ever go into a place with a lowest combined food and labor plaque on the wall. All that tells me is that they push a few workers as hard as they can. Come on one extra worker for a shift is about $60.

Looking at today's oil market data and comparing this against the main stream of economists I am beginning to think that there is a radical train of thought afoot. Bad looks good. Really bad is not too bad. Fuel prices retreating and an expectation that the consumer will stay in conservation mode all add up to the economy being evaluated by a new version of Marx and Engels.
I might point out that these two spent a lot of time trying to figure out humans. Many communist regimes tried to make these ideas work. This type of thinking has never worked - you always get the wrong answer because of the human element.

I dispise the Limited Too. They are way over priced, and their promotions are dishonest. The employees are all young girls, and they would love the customer to go away and not bother them. The management got what they deserve.

That Jennifer Anniston is either one pain in the rear or terrible in bed because she can't keep a man to save her life. Iwould take anyone over her.

No surprises here. There are going to be MANY more restaurants that are going to fold in the coming months. This is in line with my prediction that 35 percent of ALL businesses will fold before the end of SPRING.

I am not surprised at Home Depot closing store.
Unless some changes are made in their employees
behavior all of the Home Depot stores will be closing. I have never seen a store like Home Depot in my life. From my experience the employees come to work, put on their little orange aprons and stand at the end of the aisles carring on a conversation with each other completey oblivious to customers. I just give up and leave. I wonder why Home Depot tolerates this behavior from its employees. The employees seem to be unaware that sometimes customers need assistance. All they employees are interested in is their conversation with each other---all day long.

No one will lament the passing of overpriced greasy pizza and lame, rude service. One visit to the local Uno made a believer out of me, Never Again!! Unless restaurant franchises dramatically change the way they do business, they will always be a risky investment for the ong term

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Never heard of the Pizza Chain! I'm in TX. can't recall any here!

Some lame comments, as usual. Some of you are happy that yet another American business is going under. I don't care if you think their pizza is greasy. That's not the point. The point is, ever since Bush got elected, American businesses are going down like flies. Only his rich CEO buddies are flourishing. And some of you geniuses voted for him...TWICE!

PIZZERIA UNO HAS "CHICAGO STYLE" PIZZA, WHICH IS TO SAY "CRAPPY".

ONLY ST LOUIS STYLE PIZZA HAS "STYLE". THIN, USES PROVELONE INSTEAD OF MOZZARELLA AND LOTS OF MEAT.

WON'T MISS PIZZARIA UNO AT ALL.

this isn't about a pizzeria- it's about a miserably failed presidency. wake up sheeple, you are being led to the slaughter again. you elected bush twice, and he lied just like his dad. before that you elected reagan twice- you all need your heads examined.

Darksun010
Many Small Businesses are hurting because of the fail policies of the Bush Administration. McCain will continue those policies and you can see it in his voting record.
McCain is also in the Drug companies back pocket. He didn’t like the bill that would allow Drug Reimportation. McCain along with the RNC also oppose the purchasing cheaper prescription Drugs from Canada for senior’s .McCain and the RNC want Free Trade but when it comes to prescription drugs no way. Bush/McCain will do everything possible to protect the profit margins of Big Drug Companies. McCain and the RNC are in favor of raising the Social Security retirement age to 68 or even to 70 years old. The RNC like McCain, they advocated abolishing minimum wages, unions, and long-term contracts, and advocate increasing labor-market flexibility. McCain backed business groups by voting last year against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. The more good paying jobs you move overseas the lower the wages go in this country.
Voted YES on defunding renewable and solar energy. (Jun 1999)
Supports opening border to Mexican trucks. (May 2002) This is another issue where McCain wants to put the screws to American Workers.
Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. This will kill off many of our skilled and higher paid construction jobs. If you can’t move the job to another country import the workers from another country to do the work here. Putting screws to American Workers the McCain Way.

The article states that Uno will not be paying the interest on its debt as scheduled and has opted to delay paying the interest, taking advantage of a 30 day grace period. Have you ever taken advantage of a 25-30 day grace period on your credit card? If you think that this is the President of the United States fault, you need to have your head examined! The restaurant can do many things to increase sales and customer satisfaction. Each restaurant is responsible for their own success or failure and it is NOT the responsibility of any president, republican, democrat or independent.
Bluesdog and Seymour, I don't recall seeing your names on any presidential ballot, I guess you just don't have what it takes to be President of the United States Of America! Vote for the winning party, Vote REPUBLICAN...

There's a good reason to say goodbye to Midland (UNO) and the Pizza Huts that are going out of business. Their products just aren't what they used to be! At the beginning of their reigns, they both had decent (thought not the best) pizza. Then the big business side of the house got involved. PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT... Every business should have a nice profit! But in the case of Midland, their greed meant "Let's cut back on the quality a bit", "Just a little less of everything" , "Maybe a little artificial flavoring and coloring", "They'll never notice the artificial cheese"...they LOVE our name!...they LOVE our name! Wonder why sales is down? PAPA JOHNS just BLINDSIDED YOU!

lousy economy or a bunch of over educated, under learned children in charge taking it down the garden path, then saying "what happened?" we did what our teacher told us would work. idiots that never paid attention in a history class. or don't they teach it anymore, just diversity crap.

All these store closings are just putting more people in the unemployment lines and leaving more Americans without health insurance. But the economy is up... line of crap. Prices on everything continue to climb, people losing their homes left and right, the cost to heat a home is going up. This country is heading for a long cold winter. But the CEO's are still getting giant bonuses as companies close down or make cutbacks, something is wrong with this picture.

I don't mind the Uno pizza. It has a unique crust and it's pretty tasty to me. However I still think the neighborhood Italian pizza joints are better.

government bail out on the way?

The last time consumer confidence was as low as it is now was 16 years ago. The last time American inflation was higher (cost of housing, fuel, etc.) was 17 years ago. Who was president then? Oh yeah, George Sr. It's time to get out of the BUSHes and the Republican way of greasing the palms of their friends at the expense of the American taxpayers.
There will be more businesses that will fail in the next 15 months as foreclosures continue at a record pace and the Bush legacy continues to haunt America for years to come. What one idiot and his cronies did in 8 years will leave a lasting imprint on our butts for decades.
If you need more of the same... Vote McCain