NIAGARA FALLS – It will be business as usual at the Hard Rock Cafes on both sides of the border, despite the Seminoles’ purchase of the Hard Rock Cafe empire and a pending lawsuit by the company that owns the restaurant near the brink of the American Falls.
“Regardless of the purchase of Hard Rock restaurants, there will be no effect on our unit in Niagara Falls,” said David Cordish, president of the Cordish Co. of Baltimore, which owns the Hard Rock Cafe on the U.S. side of the falls. “There is a lease in place and that does not change.”
The $965 million purchase by the Seminole Tribe of Florida was approved Monday by shareholders of the London-based Rank Group, which owns the Hard Rock empire – 68 restaurants and retail stores, including 44 in the United States, 17 in Europe, three in Australia and one in Puerto Rico.
The purchase also includes Hard Rock franchises for an additional 56 restaurants and five hotels, including the cafe in Niagara Falls, Ont.
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