Five Frisch’s Big Boy restaurants, including the iconic Mainliner restaurant in Fairfax, have been ordered to vacate their locations in the latest round of evictions against the storied restaurant chain.
Iconic Mainliner among latest victims of Frisch’s struggles
Hamilton County Magistrate Michael Inderhees on Friday granted writs of eviction against the following Frisch’s, two of which were already closed:
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5760 Wooster Pike in Fairfax, the company’s historic Mainliner location
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1001 Gest St. in Queensgate
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2439 E Sharon Rd in Sharonville
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5216 Glenway Ave. in West Price Hill (closed)
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1575 W. Galbraith Road in North College Hill (closed).
The Frisch’s Mainliner location has been a fixture in the Cincinnati area since it opened in 1939. It was named for the first tri-motor passenger plane that operated from nearby Lunken Airport, according to Frisch’s website.
Restaurants have 10 days to vacate
The Mainlier and the other four restaurants have 10 days from Friday to leave their locations, according to Inderhees’ ruling.
Orlando-based NNN Reit, which owns 66 Frisch’s restaurants, filed eviction actions against the five Frisch’s restaurants on Nov. 21.
More than two dozen Frisch’s have already been ordered to vacate
It was the latest in a series of eviction actions filed by the landlord, which has been shuttering restaurants throughout the Greater Cincinnati area for months after the restaurants failed to pay more than $4.5 million in back rent.
Seven restaurants in Northern Kentucky have also been ordered to vacate, including locations in Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
Before Friday, court records revealed “more than 20” properties face eviction in Southwest Ohio – or a quarter of Frisch’s Restaurants’ nearly 80 locations in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Five more Frisch’s restaurants have been evicted, including Mainliner
