SAN ANTONIO – Editor’s note: This story was published through a partnership between the San Antonio Business Journal and KSAT.
Louisiana-based Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux & Bar has quietly closed one of its two San Antonio restaurants, removing nearly every piece of evidence that it ever had a presence in Huebner Oaks.
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The move comes less than 10 months after the company, owned in part by New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, took over control of the two Alamo City sports-themed establishments.
Walk On’s President Scott Taylor said closing the Northwest San Antonio restaurant was a “difficult decision” prompted in part by the pandemic.
“Having just assumed ownership within the last year and the uncertainty surrounding the impact of Covid-19 on our industry, we felt it necessary to close our doors,” Taylor said.
I reported in July 2018 that the Louisiana company, co-founded by Brandon Landry a former walk-on athlete at Louisiana State University, had teamed with South Texas entrepreneur Moussa Haidar to open up to four franchised restaurants in the San Antonio area.
“It’s a great market,” Landry told me then. “This is the second city in Texas that we are opening.”
Read more on this story at the San Antonio Business Journal.