The Onerous Rock Café in Paris, the closing location of the American eating place chain in France, has formally closed. An indication in French and English positioned in entrance of the venue on Street Montmartre states, “We remorseful about to tell you that we’re closed. We thanks and the town of Paris for all the time welcoming us warmly and enthusiastically.” The café was once within the center of the capital, at the Grands Boulevards.
The Onerous Rock Cafe Global Team is a world chain of eating places, lodges, and casinos working in over 70 nations, with roughly 250 institutions international. It’s owned by way of the Seminole Local American tribe and is based totally in Florida. Onerous Rock Cafes are famend for his or her collections of musical tools that after belonged to well-known singers and rock bands. They’re additionally widespread vacationer locations; many visitors depart with a T-shirt, the logo’s best-selling memento, as a souvenir in their consult with.
The control of the Onerous Rock Café in Paris has no longer disclosed the explanations for its closure, or the precise collection of workers affected, estimated to be round 90. The Paris location opened in 1991 and featured roughly 200 authentic items from artists, together with musical tools, degree costumes, autographs, and private paperwork from rock legends equivalent to Elvis Presley and Eric Clapton.
This closure follows the Onerous Rock Café in Lyon, which close down in early 2024, and the only in Great, which closed in September 2023. The Marseille location had already closed in 2017. In keeping with the newest monetary accounts for Onerous Rock Café France, the Paris established order reported a lack of €1.8 million for the 2022 monetary yr, which is double the loss from the former yr. Its turnover was once €8.7 million, an building up from €3.4 million in 2021. Moreover, the corporate famous that it hired 96 other folks at the moment.
The Great established order ended its 2023 monetary yr with a lack of 3.8 million euros and a turnover of two.5 million euros. With 49 workers, the commercial scenario most likely influenced the Onerous Rock Café workforce’s resolution to depart France. The Seminole tribe obtained the gang in 2006 for almost a thousand million greenbacks.
