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While a few new restaurants and bars are still scrambling to open before 2012 — and get some business on New Year’s Eve — other longtimers are calling it a night. The last Marie Callender’s restaurant in Colorado closed its doors last weekend, after 21 years at 51 West Dry Creek Road in Littleton.
That means if you want a Marie Callender’s pie, your best bet is the frozen foods section at your local supermarket.
That spot was owned and operated by franchise-holder Rob Grisham. This summer, when Perkins & Marie Callender’s Inc.filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, the company announced that it would be closing 27 Perkins restaurants — four of them in Colorado — and 31 Marie Callender’s locations.
Grisham’s spot was not included in that tally.
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