restaurants

Investors who own the storied Hawk ‘n’ Dove bar and other Capitol Hill eating spots owe more than $9 million to D.C. restaurateur Xavier Cervera and his partners who sold the restaurants to them in late 2012.

During a hearing held Wednesday afternoon at the Washington, D.C., bankruptcy court, lawyers for restaurant owner Barrack’s Row Entertainment said Chapter 11 would protect the company while its leaders negotiate to lower the debt owed to the former owners.

Two national restaurant chains that quietly filed for bankruptcy and tried to keep the news from their 1,400 employees caught the attention of a federal court watchdog, which has growled out an order to notify them.

A representative from the U.S. Trustee’s Office instructed the owners of—drumroll, please—the Garcia’s and Garfield’s restaurant chains to notify creditors, including many employees, that the chain’s two holding companies had filed for Chapter 11 protection on the Friday before New Year’s Eve.

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Lenny Dykstra gets prison time and the owners of the New York Mets must pay up. Also, a judge wants the Los Angeles Dodgers and Bryan Stow to settle their dispute.