Pick Up Stix Closes 26 Stores Without Notice

Pick Up Stix, a San Clemente,CA based chain of fast casual Asian restaurants, has shuttered 26 stores in Northern California, Nevada, and Arizona as of January 15, 2008. Apparently there was no notice given to the local employees, according to the buzz on Elk Grove, CA based Elk Grove Online (requires registration).

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ccg2006

This one is a hard call. It could be that the demand for this type of product wasn’t what consumers were craving, but I felt the concept was sound and the product satisfactory.

With so many choices of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese or Thai food, this fusion was quite interesting and it had corporate muscle to help with marketing and leverage funds that a lot of small business owners do not have the luxury of having. So having restaurants like Mongolian BBQ, Viet Hoa, Panda South or Bamboo Inn in our area that have managed to stay in business either makes them lucky or give them credit for having a good product. But with Pick Up Stix, it may be that there corporate office felt that cutting off a foot could save the rest of the leg-so to speak.

alex

It’s strange. I live down the street from one of the locations that closed, and another one was maybe an hour away. Both locations always seemed busy. And they made excellent food. I’m really surprised to hear they closed down. According to the sign on my local store, they’re no longer in Northern California, and it says to visit them in Southern California or Nevada. Yeah, either 4 to 5 hours away.

pfc felder

They closed in las vegas as well. I was pissed to find out when I got back from training

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