Update: Customers arriving at Marie Callender’s are reduced to leaving notes stuck by 
the door to tell friends where to meet them: “Gone to Wedgwood Broiler.”
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Marie Callender’s restaurant at Northgate shut its doors – for good – Sunday.
The restaurant, at 9538 First Ave N.E., is one of several in Washington state that closed abruptly on orders from corporate management.
According to a report from q13FOX.com, a family birthday party was interrupted Sunday afternoon when they were told to leave: “We thought, ‘Why didn’t they wait until the end of the day?’ ” KOMO-TV has a similar report here.
MarketWatch is reporting that Marie Callender’s filed for bankruptcy today and has launched a store-reduction 
program to close 65 of its company-owned restaurants.
4 reader comments so far ↓
1 Pete // Jun 13, 2011 at 11:41 am
So does this mean Northgate is gonna get a new strip club?
2 GB // Jun 13, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I mean, I’m not shocked. I grew up eating at MCs in Utah, and the last time I went to our nearby one it was depression-flavored. Will miss the pies, I guess.
Such an odd location, but seems like a perfect spot for another immediately recognizable chain-restaurant (you can see it better from I-5 than you can from anywhere else). C’mon Chili’s… wife wants a Chili’s.
3 MapleLeafBob // Jun 14, 2011 at 10:00 am
@ Pete:
Ha Ha, I wouldn’t doubt it. The permitting is probably in process already.
4 neighbor // Jun 14, 2011 at 11:24 am
Good! The food was horrible anyhow! My vote would be for a P.F. Changs.