American restaurant chain
A Claim Jumper restaurant in San Diego
Claim Jumper Restaurant and Saloon is an American restaurant chain with 11 locations[1] as of October 28th, 2023. The company is based in Houston, Texas .
History
Restaurateur Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper in Los Alamitos, California , on September 27, 1977.[citation needed ] The original restaurant had a large menu and an atmosphere inspired by California's Gold Rush of 1849 .[2]
Acquisition by Landry’s, Inc.
In September 2010, the chain filed for bankruptcy and was slated to be auctioned off.[3] [4] In October 2010, Landry's, Inc. acquired Claim Jumper, with a bid of $76.6 million.[5] Landry's President/CEO Tilman J. Fertitta relocated the company's headquarters from Irvine, California , to Landry's corporate headquarters in the Uptown area of Houston.[6]
Franchised locations
All locations on the claimjumper.com website are franchised to Kelly Restaurant Group (KRG). As of August 2023[update] , KRG has locations in California , Nevada , Oregon , and Washington .[7]
Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that part of the business was a buffet, KRG closed some of its locations, including the ones in Long Beach, California , Valencia, California [8] ,Nashville, Tennessee ,[9] and Lynnwood, Washington .[10]
Non-franchised locations
There are three locations that are still owned and operated by Landry's . They are located inside the Golden Nuggets of Laughlin, Nevada , Las Vegas, Nevada , and Lake Charles, Louisiana . These are also the only Claim Jumpers to be under the Landry's Select Club rewards program.[11]
References
^ "Locations - Claim Jumper Steakhouse & Bar" .
^ Aamodt, M.G. (2015). Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach . Cengage Learning. p. 478. ISBN 978-1-305-46528-2 . Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
^ McCarty, Dawn (September 10, 2010). "Claim Jumper Restaurants Files for Bankruptcy With Plan to Sell Business" . Bloomberg. Retrieved November 2, 2013 .
^ "Claim Jumper Chapter 11 Petition" (PDF) . PacerMonitor . Retrieved 9 June 2016 .
^ Thorn, Bret (October 30, 2010). "Landry's to acquire Claim Jumper | Archive content from Nation's Restaurant News" . Nrn.com. Retrieved November 2, 2013 .
^ "Claim Jumper moves headquarters to Texas" . The Orange County Register . February 25, 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-11-06. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
^ "Locations" . Claim Jumper . Retrieved 2022-08-25 .
^ "Claim Jumper permanently closes Long Beach location • Long Beach Business Journal" . Long Beach Business Journal . 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2022-07-10 .
^ "Claim Jumper Restaurants - CLOSED" . TripAdvisor . Retrieved 1 December 2022 .
^ https://www.claimjumper.com/locations/lynnwood
^ "Claim Jumper Restaurant & Saloon" . www.landrysinc.com . Retrieved 2023-07-03 .
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