Kroger Closing 2 Kitchen 1883s

The Kroger Co. (Cincinnati) appears to be winding down its efforts break into the restaurant business, closing two of the three Kitchen 1883s it’s opened since 2017. News of the restaurant/bar closings were posted on the restaurants’ Facebook page, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

Slated to close on April 24 are the Kitchen 1883 in the Northern Kentucky town of Union, Ky., which sits about 20 miles south of Kroger’s HQ in downtown Cincinnati and opened in 2017, and one that debuted two years later in Anderson Township, roughly a dozen miles east of downtown on the Ohio side of the Ohio River.

The Facebook announcement gave no reason for the closings, but noted that a Kitchen 1883 located in the Kroger store in downtown’s Over-the-Rhine district remains in operation. The fledgling chain – serving what the grocer described in the news release on the concept’s launch as “new comfort Americana” cuisine – was named for the year that Barney Kroger opened his first grocery store in Cincinnati.