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True Food Kitchen files for Chapter 11 and closes 12 restaurants; SanDiegoVille says UTC location is among them

The health-focused chain filed for bankruptcy Oct. 4 and plans a court-supervised sale. SanDiegoVille reports the Westfield UTC restaurant closed; the Fashion Valley location remains open.

By Claudia · Oct 7, 2026

University City, San Diego

True Food Kitchen filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, Oct. 4, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas and closed 12 restaurants, Restaurant Dive and SanDiegoVille reported. About 34 restaurants in 14 states remain open.

The company plans a court-supervised sale and has lined up a roughly $20 million debtor-in-possession loan from HumanCo TFK IV, subject to court approval, Restaurant Dive reported. SanDiegoVille cites about $42.1 million in funded debt. CEO Jeff Chandler called the process the best path to simplify the business, KTAR reported.

SanDiegoVille reports the Westfield UTC location, open since November 2017, is among the closures, while the Fashion Valley restaurant stays open. The other outlets did not list which sites closed, so the UTC closure has not been independently confirmed.

How this story was made: drafted with AI assistance, then checked line by line against the sources below by a San Diego Insight editor before publishing. Our standards.

Sources

  1. SanDiegoVille — True Food Kitchen closes San Diego UTC
  2. Restaurant Dive — True Food Kitchen files Chapter 11
  3. KTAR — True Food Kitchen bankruptcy

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