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Tijuana Flats Restaurants, LLC emerged from chapter 11 on March 18, 2025, when its Joint Chapter 11 Plan became effective and was substantially consummated, closing an eleven-month case that restructured the Florida fast-casual Tex-Mex operator around a cash-collateral-funded going concern. The Debtors — Tijuana Flats Restaurants, LLC and subsidiary TJF Franchise Group, LLC — filed voluntary chapter 11 petitions on April 19, 2024 in the Middle District of Florida (Voluntary Petition Dkt. 1), having already closed 11 underperforming corporate locations and consolidated subsidiary operations in the run-up to filing. The company operates 65 corporate-owned Florida restaurants alongside 26 franchised units run through TJF Franchise, and reported roughly $120 million in 2023 revenue with approximately 1,500 employees. The filing was precipitated by compressed margins from rising food and labor costs, menu-change cost overruns, heavy interest-reserve payments to Truist Bank, and accumulated accounts payable and tax obligations, all landing on a balance sheet anchored by a single first-lien secured creditor. That secured creditor, LSC2022, LLC, held approximately $18.8 million in first-lien term and revolving loans — the Debtors' only meaningful funded debt…
Updated Jun 19, 2026
BNC Certificate of Mailing - Order (related document(s) (Related Doc [867])). Notice Date 03/29/2025. (Admin.)
Docket 868 · Mar 29, 2025
Final Decree . Service Instructions: Clerks Office to serve. (Perkins, Cathy)
Docket 867 · Mar 27, 2025
Hearing Proceeding Memo: Hearing Held - APPEARANCES: WITNESSES: EVIDENCE: RULING: Preliminary Hearing on Motion for Final Decree Filed by Richard R Thames on behalf of Debtor Tijuana Flats Restaurants, LLC Doc 862 GRANTED ORDER CM -Notice of Effective Date and of Substantial Consummation of Debtors' Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization Filed by Richard R Thames on behalf of Debtor Tijuana Flats Restaurants, LLC Doc 861 Proposed Orders, if applicable, should be submitted within three days after the date of the hearing - Local Rule 9072-1(c). This docket entry/document is not an official order of the Court . (Miguenes, Bill)
Docket 866 · Mar 26, 2025
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