New restaurant, HQ on the menu for Salisbury House
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This article was published 16/06/2010 (5615 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SALS is on the move.
Salisbury House, the iconic Winnipeg restaurant chain, is moving its head office from the Murray Industrial Park in St. James to Leila Avenue in Garden City.
Earl Barrish, Salisbury House president, said the company’s head office will be set up inside the former Longhorn’s Texas Steakhouse at Garden City Square, which will also become a 150-seat Salisbury House restaurant.
The move is part of a greater reorganization within Salisbury House that took effect June 1. Separate groups of Salisbury co-owners bought the Leila site and the properties housing its existing restaurants on Ellice Avenue and King Edward Street and will lease the properties to Salisbury House of Canada Ltd.
“We’re becoming masters of our own destiny,” Barrish said of the move. “This is an amazing turnaround from where we were four years ago.”
Barrish was referring to the slippery slope of bankruptcy that Salisbury House was edging closer to after it got caught up in the financial irregularities of Protos International.
The restaurant chain was put back on stable footing when Barrish and his partners — Burton Cummings, Lorne Saifer and Hersh Wolch — took over the running of the business.
Salisbury House operates 19 permanent restaurants, six seasonal operations and an 18-month-old catering business.
Salisbury House has a restaurant in the Garden City area in a strip mall at Leila and McPhillips Street, but Barrish said it is the smallest of its full-service restaurants and also one of the company’s busiest.
“Rather than renew a lease for a small location, we looked around and found something larger in the same area and we were able to purchase it,” Barrish said. The McPhillips location will close Oct. 1, opening day for the new Leila operation.
Barrish said the Leila site is about 50 per cent larger than the McPhillips location and can seat 150 people. The new location also features a private room the company will rent out for private functions, and expansive parking.
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