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In 1946, brothers Roy and Key Furr founded the first Furr's restaurant, which opened in Hobbs in southeastern New Mexico. A second location was opened in Odessa, Texas, in 1947. Furr's was purchased by the Kmart Corp. in 1980, [1] and subsequently sold by Kmart to Michael Levenson's Limited National Partnership in 1988. [citation needed]
Furr’s, which began as a cafeteria in the ’40s, was owned by another ill-fated chain, Kmart, in the 1980s. By the time the pandemic hit, it had only 16 locations in four states.
Ryan’s parent company — which also owned a number of buffet restaurants on this list, including Old Country Buffet, HomeTown Buffet, and Furr’s — filed for bankruptcy a number of times in ...
By 1999 Furr's operated 75 grocery stores in New Mexico and Texas with about 5,500 employees. On February 8, 2001, Furr's sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and then ultimately converted the filing to Chapter 7 , thus liquidating all of its properties and ceasing business operations.
New Mexico is a state located in the Western United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, New Mexico is the 15th least-populous state with 2,117,522 inhabitants [1] but the 5th-largest by land area, spanning 121,298.15 square miles (314,160.8 km 2). [2] New Mexico is divided into 33 counties and contains 106 municipalities ...
Taco Villa is a U.S.-based fast-food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex-style Mexican cuisine.. There are currently 20 locations in Amarillo, Andrews, Benbrook, Big Spring, Canyon, Lubbock, Midland and Odessa in TX and Clovis and Hobbs in NM, owned by the Bobby Cox Companies. [1]
Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 40,508 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] increasing from 34,122 in 2010. Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico micropolitan statistical area , which includes all of Lea County.
The Hobbs News-Sun is a daily newspaper published Tuesday through Sunday in Hobbs, New Mexico, featuring news, sports and other features of interest to readers in Lea County. The News-Sun was the result of a merger between two of the many local newspapers that appeared in Hobbs in the 1930s, following the region's oil boom at that time.