Underpaid staff at closing Toby Keith's mega-restaurant makes off with autographs and liquor

Baxter Lomax
  I really don't know who the fuck Toby Keith is but I guess he was some big country singing guy. for some reason corporate town Rosemont had given major tax breaks to him and his restaurant  group to open a restaurant in this Chicago area town but the owners refused to pay the village nor its taxes after a few years open.  Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill in Rosemont, Illinois, had until Oct. 31 before it needed to close its doors for good, according to the village's mayor, but it appears the restaurant shut down early after management accused workers of stealing memorabilia and liquor from the venue. when word got out to the underpaid staff at this restaurant of the coming closures the staff decided to make off with some of the memorabilia and stored liquor in the big box restaurant . I saw pictures of this place and it was huge and to this day I am still wondering why investors thought a country bar of this magnitude would somehow succeed . It then dawned onto me that in the corporate restaurant structure logic is not the reasoning behind location but tax breaks and ability to get construction concessions out of villages hard-pressed for needed tax dollars. The Chicago area specializes in these oversized bars and pubs quintessentially to drive out the small bar mom and pop tavern owners and threaten the few that survive like My own Itasca Inn in Itasca, Illinois.  The vast majority of restaurants fail relying on bank loans to keep their owners accessing capital and living large while paying workers two bucks an hour. When they accumulate a certain amount of debt they don't intend to pay back these owners sampling sell the business and don't have to worry about these bank notes anymore or paying back shit.

Village officials said Wednesday they plan to replace Toby Keith’s with a project from Joe’s Bar on Weed Street and Lettuce Entertain You’s Bub City, the Daily Herald reported.

The joint venture between Joe’s Bar and Bub City, both of which are country-themed bars and restaurants in Chicago, could open in the spring. Rosemont, Illinois is a heaven for big corporate restaurants and the tax breaks given to this ugly sprawl area for a entertainment district that is about as modern, ugly, and suburban you will find anywhere in the nation. This area and place is for the folks too frightened to venture into downtowns and have to look and hear panhandlers. toby keith's place will  e quickly replaced with another business in that location and this will last a few years before this new business follows the dame "bar restaurant" act.