King's Family Restaurants closing 5 locations, including Altoona

PITTSBURGH -- King's Family Restaurants has closed five of its western Pennsylvania restaurants.

The Pittsburgh-area chain was founded in 1967, but was sold two years ago to Kelly Capital, a San Diego, California private equity firm.

Nobody at Kelly or King's immediately responded to messages left Monday.

The chain announced Sunday night that its restaurants in Altoona (6th Avenue), Bridgeville, Harmar Township, Imperial and Wexford were closing.

That leaves the chain with 24 locations in western Pennsylvania and one in eastern Ohio.

The new owners said two years ago that they had no immediate plans to close any locations or cut any employees.

About 130 workers are affected by the closings that took effect 7 p.m. Sunday.

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