The Virginia Beach outpost of McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood and Steaks quietly closed this month, more than 12 years after it opened in December 2007.
The phone at the Town Center restaurant is disconnected; the location has been scrubbed from the company website; and signs at the restaurant’s entrance announce the closure, thanking customers for “the pleasure of serving you.” Neither Town Center nor McCormick & Schmick’s responded to requests for comment.
The steakhouse and seafood restaurant, known for its generous happy hours, was one of the earlier restaurant tenants in Town Center, and the first retail tenant in the block it shares with the Sandler Center. After the closing of the Virginia Beach location, two more McCormick & Schmick’s locations remain in Virginia, one in Alexandria and one in Reston.
The chain has been one of the more nimble in responding to the coronavirus crisis, with many locations offering family meal packs and grocery sales from their restaurant larders. But in March, its parent company, Landry’s Inc. of Texas, furloughed 40,000 employees, amounting to 70% of its workforce across 60 brands, FSR magazine reported.
Matthew Korfhage, 757-446-2318, matthew.korfhage@pilotonline.com
