Restaurant Employees in Plymouth and Canton Learn of Closure

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PLYMOUTH, MI – The Nashville, TN-based Max & Erma’s said Monday it is closing 13 restaurants in three states, including at least seven in Michigan, effective immediately.

The restaurants that will be closed in Michigan are located in the Villages of Rochester Hills in Rochester, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, Laurel Park Place Mall in Livonia and Canton Center in Canton; near Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills; and on Beck Road in Plymouth and Eisenhower Parkway in Ann Arbor will close, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Three restaurants will remain open in southeast Michigan — one at the Mall at Partridge Creek in Clinton Township, one at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport at Romulus and one on Lake Lansing Road in Lansing.

The restaurants are owned by American Blue Ribbon Holdings, which said it is closing underperforming restaurants as the first stage of a restructuring plan.

Employees at the affected restaurants learned Monday of the closure plans.

“A member of our senior leadership team was at each restaurant this morning to personally deliver this news and to provide each and every team member with a severance agreement,” American Blue Ribbon Holdings said in a statement. “We felt that the best way to handle this news was to deliver the news in person. This ensured that each employee was dealt with individually and in person.”