SPB Hospitality
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Restaurant |
| Founded | 2020 in Broomfield, Colorado |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
Key people | Josh Kern, (CEO) Jessica Hagler (CFO) |
| Owner | Fortress Investment Group, Golden Child Holdings |
Number of employees | 18,000 |
| Website | https://www.spbhospitality.com/ |
SPB Hospitality is a multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company owns several casual dining restaurant chain brands, including Logan's Roadhouse, Old Chicago Pizza + Taproom, J. Alexander's, Stoney River Steak House, Krystal Restaurants, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants, and Rock Bottom Restaurants Breweries. It is the owner of the holdings of the former CraftWorks Company. As of November 2019, CraftWorks owned and operated over 390 restaurants in the United States, but all of its owned-and-operated locations closed by March 2020, after a Chapter 11 bankruptcy followed immediately by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and CraftWorks terminated its 18,000 employees, leaving fewer than 25 employed. On June 12, 2020, SPB Hospitality purchased Craftworks businesses out of bankruptcy for $93 million.