Bankrupt fast-food operator to sell 42 restaurants in 4 states for $18.6M

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    "title": "Bankrupt fast-food operator to sell 42 restaurants in 4 states for $18.6M - Yahoo Finance",
    "excerpt": "A major Wendy's operator is set to sell 42 restaurants about a month after it filed for bankruptcy. According to multiple industry sources including Restaurant Dive and Crain's Business , Michigan-based Meritage Hospitality Group plans to unload the Wendy's in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri to Divine Infinity Operations for $18.6 million. Both sources cited a court filing submitted on Wednesday. Meritage operates 314 Wendy's, one Bojangles and five independently branded concepts across 15 states. In September, the company said the filing followed what the company called a \"candid assessment\" of the financial pressures facing the broader Wendy's brand over the past few years. Wendy's later revealed that it had already terminated its franchise agreements due to non-payment of over $27 million in royalty obligations prior to the filing. Because of that, Wendy's claimed the operator didn't have a right to ask for bankruptcy support to operate its restaurants – a claim Meritage disputed on Oct. 1. Regardless, Meritage has been seeking a buyer for the locations since last November , according to the court filing. \"A prompt sale to the buyer will preserve the going-concern value of the restaurants, preserve hundreds of jobs and the restaurants' franchise relationship, and provide liquidity for the debtors' estates,\" Chirstopher Kelleher, managing director of Auspex...",
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