Noodles & Company closes 2 locations in Washington County
Noodles & Company closed two of its restaurants in Washington County, including the location at Old Mill in South Strabane Township. The other location closed was in Donaldsons Square strip center in Peters Township.
A sign on the door of the Noodles & Company restaurant at Old Mill in South Strabane Township informs customers that is has closed.
Noodles & Company has closed five of its restaurants in the Pittsburgh region, including Washington County’s two locations.
Restaurants in the Old Mill, South Strabane Township, and on Washington Road, Peters Township, were closed Wednesday along with those in South Fayette Township (Millers Run Road), Wexford and Monroeville. Both Noodles & Company outlets in Washington County opened in the second half of 2014.
The fast-casual chain shuttered 39 locations nationwide Wednesday, spokeswoman Danielle Moore said in an email. That is 8 percent of its estimated 510 sites,
South Hills Village is one of four Noodles & Company locations that remain open in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The others are in downtown Pittsburgh, Oakland and Cranberry Township.
The Denver Business Journal reported Feb. 9 the Broomfield, Colo.-based firm was dealing with year-after-year sales declines and planned to close 55 restaurants. It also said the company shuttered 16 locations in late 2015.
Moore said in her email Thursday: “We made the difficult decision to close selected underperforming restaurants, allowing us to focus exclusively on capitalizing on the many restaurants that are doing very well. Closing … these restaurants was a hard but necessary call to make.”