Front Page  »  

McLintocks restaurants close in Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo

October 22, 2024

By KAREN VELIE

F. McLintocks Saloon and Dining restaurants in Pismo Beach and San Luis Obispo have closed, six months after McLintocks in Arroyo Grande closed.

In 1973, McLintocks opened its first restaurant in Shell Beach. Two years later, the company opened in San Luis Obispo. The Arroyo Grande location opened in 1984.

In March, noting rising costs – such as food and insurance – McLintocks decided to end their lease and close the Arroyo Grande location. COVID-19 closures and bridge repairs in 2020-2021 that limited access to their parking lot negatively impacted the Arroyo Grande location.

The company recently closed the Pismo Beach and San Luis Obispo restaurants. While the phones are disconnected and the restaurants are closed, its unclear if the company plans to reopen in the future.

 


Loading...
Subjects:         
Related:


10 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Sad to see it go but it was said to see Matties go years ago.


6

Where will all the lifted trucks and mullets from Bako go out to dinner now?


-13

I reckon they’ll go to any one of the many dining establishments that are open for business in the Five Cities area there Ralphy.


4

The quality of food had been on a slow decline, while the prices kept going up. Par for the course when restaurants are sold to new owners or when the management changes. The hamburger on the menu in Shell beach, for example, cost $27. Beans and bread were no longer complimentary. I will miss McLintock’s, a staple of SLO County’s steakhouse scene.


23

I do not believe McClintocks was sold prior to closure. And of course the prices were going up, duh, food cost, labor, utilities, insurance, and either rent or the property owner’s expected return on the investment. A lot may be insurance for a business with their history, kinda like Tognazzini’s. And the beans are no longer that great. Go to Jocko’s if you have the time, or put on your apron and get to work in your kitchen and BBQ grill.


1

It was always good for Whiskey and Monty Mills on Saturday night and the best hangover breakfast burrito on Sunday morning…. It will be missed But again so was Beno’s and Scrubby and Lloyd’s. Time marches on.


19

You try paying servers $20/hr plus workmen’s comp, businesses and their workers are fleeing the state.


20

Just curious do you think these places will be shuttered and not replaced? That is what business fleeing the state would look like. If is was bad as you imply there would be no backfill. Which there will be. There is a real thing called a business cycle. As much as I enjoyed this establishment it became a tired old piece of shoe leather and cycled out. Like all of us.


-6

It’s interesting that the Pismo/Shell Beach location shuttered on a Sunday, but employees had to wait until Tuesday to get their final paychecks. That’s not exactly in line with labor law.


-13

Mclintocks Pismo Beach property must be worth many many millions of dollars and I imagine could be turned into a property with many residential units of some kind. Restaurants are very difficult business. This is probably a good time to cash out.


0