Luby's Cafeteria

September 11, 1997 - What the Mall of Memphis did for Luby's Cafeteria, it wouldn't do for just any business. But then, the 238-seat eatery is expected to draw significant foot traffic to the mall, a promising possibility to management, which is not resting easy at a 76 percent mall occupancy rate. The mall asked four tenants to relocate in the 16-year-old shopping complex - or leave - to create room for Luby's. Two moved, and two left.

October 22, 1998 - Luby's Cafeteria leaves Mall of Memphis Sunday a little more than a year after injecting troubled mall retailers with a dose of hope. The site was on a list of 14 locations Luby's targeted for closure after a nationwide assessment of the company's 200-plus cafeterias. The 14 just weren't making enough money. Mall of Memphis negotiated two years with Luby's, asked four tenants to relocate and spent thousands of dollars to build space for the cafeteria.

It is safe to say that this was the begining of the death of the mall... They did everything they could to help out, and yet the corporation ditched after less time than the mall spent trying to get them to come in, losing 2 stores in the process! :(

October 23, 2007, at 10:57 PM by Kurisu