The Laborious Rock Café in Paris, the final location of the American restaurant chain in France, has formally closed. An indication in French and English positioned in entrance of the venue on Boulevard Montmartre states, “We remorse to tell you that we’re closed. We thanks and the town of Paris for at all times welcoming us warmly and enthusiastically.” The café was within the coronary heart of the capital, on the Grands Boulevards.
The Laborious Rock Cafe Worldwide Group is a worldwide chain of eating places, lodges, and casinos working in over 70 international locations, with roughly 250 institutions worldwide. It’s owned by the Seminole Native American tribe and is predicated in Florida. Laborious Rock Cafes are famend for his or her collections of musical devices that when belonged to well-known singers and rock bands. They’re additionally well-liked vacationer locations; many company go away with a T-shirt, the model’s best-selling memento, as a memento of their go to.
The administration of the Laborious Rock Café in Paris has not disclosed the explanations for its closure, or the precise variety of staff affected, estimated to be round 90. The Paris location opened in 1991 and featured roughly 200 unique items from artists, together with musical devices, stage costumes, autographs, and private paperwork from rock legends comparable to Elvis Presley and Eric Clapton.
This closure follows the Laborious Rock Café in Lyon, which shut down in early 2024, and the one in Good, which closed in September 2023. The Marseille location had already closed in 2017. In accordance with the latest monetary accounts for Laborious Rock Café France, the Paris institution reported a lack of €1.8 million for the 2022 monetary yr, which is double the loss from the earlier yr. Its turnover was €8.7 million, a rise from €3.4 million in 2021. Moreover, the corporate famous that it employed 96 folks at the moment.
The Good institution ended its 2023 monetary yr with a lack of 3.8 million euros and a turnover of two.5 million euros. With 49 staff, the financial scenario probably influenced the Laborious Rock Café group’s determination to depart France. The Seminole tribe acquired the group in 2006 for almost a billion {dollars}.
