Claim Jumper
{{Short description|American restaurant chain}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Claim Jumper
| logo = Claim_Jumper_Restaurant_Logo.jpg
| industry = Restaurant
| foundation = {{start date and age|1977|09|27}} in Los Alamitos, California
| location = Houston, Texas, U.S.
| num_locations = 15 (12 franchised){{citation needed|date=July 2023}}
| key_people = Tilman J. Fertitta (President, CEO, and owner)
Michael Kelly (franchise partner)
| parent = Kelly Restaurant Group
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.claimjumper.com}}
}}
File:Claim Jumper restaurant in San Diego.jpg]]
Claim Jumper Restaurant and Saloon is an American restaurant chain with 11 locations{{Cite web |title=Locations - Claim Jumper Steakhouse & Bar |url=https://www.claimjumper.com/locations }} as of October 28, 2023. The company is based in Houston, Texas.
History
Restaurateur Craig Nickoloff opened the first Claim Jumper in Los Alamitos, California, on September 27, 1977.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} The original restaurant had a large menu and an atmosphere inspired by California's Gold Rush of 1849.{{cite book | last=Aamodt | first=M.G. | title=Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach | publisher=Cengage Learning | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-305-46528-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OzV-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT478 | access-date=November 18, 2017 | page=478}}
=Acquisition by Landry’s, Inc.=
In September 2010, the chain filed for bankruptcy and was slated to be auctioned off.{{cite web|last=McCarty |first=Dawn |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-10/claim-jumper-restaurants-files-for-bankruptcy-with-plan-to-sell-business.html |title=Claim Jumper Restaurants Files for Bankruptcy With Plan to Sell Business |publisher=Bloomberg |date=September 10, 2010 |accessdate=November 2, 2013}}{{cite web|title=Claim Jumper Chapter 11 Petition|url=https://www.pacermonitor.com/view/FBI2DFI/Claim_Jumper_Management,_LLC__debke-10-12820__0001.0.pdf|website=PacerMonitor|accessdate=9 June 2016}} In October 2010, Landry's, Inc. acquired Claim Jumper, with a bid of $76.6 million.{{cite web|last=Thorn |first=Bret |url=http://nrn.com/archive/landrys-acquire-claim-jumper |title=Landry's to acquire Claim Jumper | Archive content from Nation's Restaurant News |publisher=Nrn.com |date=October 30, 2010 |accessdate=November 2, 2013}} Landry's President/CEO Tilman J. Fertitta relocated the company's headquarters from Irvine, California, to Landry's corporate headquarters in the Uptown area of Houston.{{cite web|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/texas-289883-headquarters-jumper.html|title=Claim Jumper moves headquarters to Texas|work=The Orange County Register|date=February 25, 2011 |url-status=live |accessdate=November 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106165953/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/texas-289883-headquarters-jumper.html |archive-date=2013-11-06 }}
Franchised locations
All locations on the [https://www.claimjumper.com claimjumper.com] website are franchised to Kelly Restaurant Group (KRG). {{As of|2023|08}}, KRG has locations in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.{{Cite web|title=Locations |url=https://www.claimjumper.com/locations/ |access-date=2022-08-25 |website=Claim Jumper |language=en}}
Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that part of the business was a buffet, KRG closed some of its locations, including the ones in Long Beach, California, Valencia, California,{{Cite web |date=2020-07-09 |title=Claim Jumper permanently closes Long Beach location • Long Beach Business Journal |url=https://lbbusinessjournal.com/news/claim-jumper-permanently-closes-long-beach-location |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=Long Beach Business Journal |language=en-US}}Nashville, Tennessee,{{cite web |title=Claim Jumper Restaurants - CLOSED |url=https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g55229-d3200840-Reviews-Claim_Jumper_Restaurants-Nashville_Davidson_County_Tennessee.html |website=TripAdvisor |access-date=1 December 2022 |ref=Nashville}} and Lynnwood, Washington.https://www.claimjumper.com/locations/lynnwood {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
Non-franchised locations
There are three locations that are still owned and operated by Landry's. They are located inside the Golden Nuggets of Laughlin, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Lake Charles, Louisiana. These are also the only Claim Jumpers to be under the Landry's Select Club rewards program.{{Cite web |title=Claim Jumper Restaurant & Saloon |url=https://www.landrysinc.com/brand-listing/claim-jumper |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=www.landrysinc.com |language=en}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{official website|https://www.claimjumper.com/}}
{{Landry's, Inc.}}
Category:Regional restaurant chains in the United States
Category:Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010
Category:Restaurants established in 1977
Category:Restaurant franchises
Category:Steakhouses in the United States
Category:1977 establishments in California
Category:Companies based in Houston
Category:2010 mergers and acquisitions