BOYERTOWN, PA - The Boyertown area has known the Bonanza Restaurant for many years, since its inception in the 1980's.  Although many may claim that the quality of the food offered has been going down in the last few years, the buffet and steak house was always a busy stop on a Friday night.

The locally owned franchised restaurant is closing due to an end of a 20-year contract with Metromedia Restaurant Group (MRG), the owner of the Bonanza and Ponderosa restaurant chains.  The restaurant was left with a choice of continuing business with the Bonanza trademark and paying higher fees to the corporation or waiting two years until opening a new business on the location, as in agreement in the contract.

Not only does this leave Boyertown with another empty shell of a building, it is also leaving many high school students, who are a large percentage of the employee population, without jobs.

Sunday, February 18th will be the final day the restaurant will be open.

Posted by Zachary Reinert on 02/09/07.