Five Guys To Close Two L.a.-area Locations

Five Guys will adjacent 2 Los Angeles-area locations later this month.

The burger concatenation announced successful a caller authorities filing that its locations successful City of Industry and Whittier will adjacent successful precocious May. An outlet successful Merced will besides adjacent its doors successful precocious June, and 1 successful Hanford will unopen down successful early July, according to authorities tribunal filings.

The burger elephantine is nan latest fast-food concatenation to shutter locations arsenic nan manufacture struggles pinch rising labour and existent property costs successful nan state.

The institution cited “financial hardship” arsenic a logic for nan closures, according to a filing.

Employers are legally required to taxable a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, aliases WARN notice, to alert employers, authorities and section officials astatine slightest 60 days earlier awesome layoffs. The first notices were submitted successful precocious April and early May.

The concatenation had dependable maturation successful 2024, but seems to person stumbled successful California. It opened 37 caller storefronts that year, according to nan company’s franchise disclosure document. Yet California stores accounted for 8 of nan 14 locations that closed that year.

The closures will consequence successful 55 jobs mislaid crossed nan 4 locations, according to nan WARN notice.

A spokesperson for Five Guys did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Fast nutrient chains person struggled against rising operational costs and progressively cost-conscious customers.

California’s economical scenery has further analyzable business successful nan state. While aerospace and defense companies person continued to flock to nan state, companies successful different sectors, including food, person started to bail out.

Five Guys classed 42 successful QSR Magazine’s apical 50 U.S. restaurants database for 2026 and nan number of locations successful nan state roseate by 2% successful 2025.

The concatenation sewage its commencement astir 40 years agone successful Virginia and now operates complete 1,900 locations, according to its website.

The restaurant’s website lists complete 85 locations successful California, including astatine slightest 15 storefronts successful nan Los Angeles area.