Will parent company’s bankruptcy be the end of line for Pittsburgh-area Bravo restaurants?

The parent company of Bravo Fresh Italian and Brio Italian Mediterranean restaurants has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their rebuilding process, according to our sister station WHIO.

FoodFirst Global Restaurants took the company private in 2018 in an effort to rebuild.

In Janurary, Steven Layt was hired as the new CEO in January to help turn the company around after declining sales, according to WHIO.

“The improvement process was radically altered due to the current international health crisis...creating massive restaurant closings and employee losses throughout the country via state ordered shelter-in-place requirements, which exacerbates the need to reduce the Restaurants’ footprint," court records read.

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There are five Bravo restaurants in our area: The Waterfront, Mt. Lebanon, Cranberry, Robinson and McKnight.

Out of those five locations, only the McKnight and Robinson locations are offering take-out, according to Bravo’s website.

It’s not clear if any of the Pittsburgh-area restaurants were any of the locations that were closed.

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