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Godai Sushi, 11203 West Ave., has been a longtime favourite want native followers of Japanese meals.
San Antonio’s Godai Sushi Bar & Restaurant filed for Chapter 7 chapter liquidation final week attributable to debt owed to the Inside Income Service and different collectors, in accordance with court docket filings obtained by the Present.
Even so, the North Facet sushi mainstay plans to stay in operation for the foreseeable future, its lawyer advised one native media outlet.
Company entity Godai Sushi Inc. listed money owed of practically $346,000 in its submitting in U.S. Chapter Courtroom for the Western District of Texas. Of that whole, the enterprise, led by chef William “Goro” Pitchford Jr., owes $93,000 to the IRS.
Pitchford’s chapter lawyer, Martin Seidler, to speak to the Present concerning the submitting. Nonetheless, he advised the Categorical-Information that even although Godai Sushi Inc. is liquidating, the restaurant itself was reincorporated below Gosushi LLC in Might.
“The IRS gave him an ultimatum,” Seidler advised the day by day. “They claimed they have been going to close him down. So we figured in the event that they’re going to close him down, [he] may in addition to shut down the outdated [company] after which arrange a brand new firm that doesn’t have any money owed so he can begin paying them again individually.”
Godai Sushi is the second native sushi restaurant to make a chapter submitting in current weeks. Sushi Zushi filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety on June 21. That submitting was the results of an ongoing feud among the many chain’s homeowners, in accordance with a separate Categorical-Information report.
Pitchford’s been working sushi eating places within the San Antonio space since 1998, when he opened Teriyaki & Extra. Godai Sushi, which Pitchford launched in 2005, was voted the second-best sushi restaurant within the Present’s 2022 Better of San Antonio concern.
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