Abrio’s Vera Cucina, 859 E. State St., will be closing its doors per a ruling made Wednesday by Athens County Court of Common Pleas Judge L. Alan Goldsberry.
Jack Harris, owner of investment group CMH Hospitality Inc., the court receiver of the business and operation of Abrio’s, first applied for an emergency motion Sept. 12, seeking authority from the court to close the business.
Harris cited dwindling sales as the reason for the motion, according to a previous Post article. Harris said the restaurant, formerly known as Abrio’s Brick Oven, would need to make $14,000 a week in sales to stay afloat.
Harris’s motion was granted during a court hearing Wednesday at 11 a.m.
Goldsberry granted Harris the authority to shut down the restaurant and dispose of any remaining food.
According to court documents, Harris was also authorized to borrow whatever funds necessary to make insurance payments, utilities and essential expenses related to the closure.
“It is ordered and decreed that the Receiver shall be, and he hereby is, authorized to cease operations at a date and in the manner the Receiver deems appropriate,” Goldsberry wrote in a document detailing the order.
Harris was first appointed as operator of Abrio’s in April of this year, according to court documents. The court chose Harris as operator after the restaurant’s former managing company, Lady Hawke LLC, failed to pay a “cognovit note” for $305,138 worth of debt to the Ohio University Credit Union.
Harris could not be reached for comment by press time.
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