Ignite Restaurant Group: Joe's Crab Shack meets sudden ending in KC

The Houston-based Ignite Restaurant Group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June, has shuttered its last Kansas City restaurant, The Examiner reports. The closing comes on the heels of Houston-based Landry's Inc. winning the bankruptcy court auction for Ignite Restaurant Group. According to the Houston Business Journal, a judge is expected to approve the $55 million sale at a court hearing on Thursday. With the closing of the location at 20001 E. Jackson Dr. in Independence, the nearest...