The 39-year-old Portland pizza chain Hotlips, which is also well-known for its house-made fruit sodas, has closed three of its five restaurants. The announcement was made on March 27, with the Civic, Killingsworth, and Hollywood locations closing effective immediately. Co-owners Jeana Edelman and David Yudkin attributed the closures to the “pandemic, labor, and economic stresses.”
Hotlips is strategically downsizing in the hopes that a smaller footprint, “fewer, moving parts and realistic, attainable goals” will make the company more sustainable moving forward. Edelman and Yudkin will focus on their remaining locations on SE Hawthorne Boulevard and in the Pearl District, the former of which serves as the company’s central
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