Chili’s closes Springfield restaurant
Updated 10:47 AM;
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Signage has been removed from the restaurant building at 302 Cooley St.
Two large dumpsters packed with material from the eatery were parked outside Friday morning.
Calls to the Texas-based restaurant chain were not immediately returned.
Customers at the West Springfield location were told that the Springfield restaurant had permanently closed earlier this week.
There are 19 Chili’s locations in Massachusetts and about 1,600 worldwide.
The casual dining chain was founded by Larry Lavine in 1975 and is currently owned by Brinker International, which also operates the Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurants.
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Off The Menu: French fries the stuff of fast-food legend
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
They’re the stuff of fast-food legend.
The “they” is McDonald’s original-formulation French fries. Made from fresh Russet potatoes and fried in beef tallow, the French fries served at McDonald’s restaurants in the 1960s and ’70s supposedly earned the praise of late 20th century food luminaries like James Beard and Julia Child.
Certainly today’s restaurant French fries aren’t often memorable. Industrially processed, flash frozen, and sometimes “coated” to give the product better “plate life,” the modern French fry is nothing like the “pommes frites” from which they are originally descended.