The parent company of Rockville Pike bowling alley Pinstripes has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it announced yesterday. Located at Pike & Rose in the White Flint area, Pinstripes opened in 2017. The national Pinstripes chain closed several locations across the country as it made the bankruptcy announcement. But the Pike & Rose location is one that is among those that will continue operating for now.
"We will keep operating as usual - welcoming guests, hosting events, and supporting our remaining team members," Pinstripes said in an online message. "Your gift cards and event deposits remain valid at continuing locations, and this process will allow us to emerge stronger and continuously focused on providing exceptional experiences for our guests and partners." Pinstripes went public as a company just two years ago, but has run into fiscal difficulties since that time. According to Nation's Restaurant News, the company's liabilities to creditors are currently as much as $500 million.
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Went there several times and it was a good experience. The bowling and food were top flight. That space is huge. Hard to bring in the bucks with a large restaurant, event space and full bowling alley. The question becomes what on earth could survive in a space that big? Barnes and Noble possibly.
Let’s start an argument. The headline is misleading. There is no need to mention White Flint as the location of the bowling lanes. It’s in Pike and Rose. That’s sufficient and less confusing.
The lanes were much smaller than regulation lanes.
To go along with the comment above, you are mis-characterizing it as a Bowling Alley. It's mainly a Restaurant with a Bowling Alley attached !
I really don't know why they are keeping half their locations open, according to news reports. With as much money as they are losing they must be desperate to keep from going completely out of business.
2:14 - Not confusing at all to us locals. It's the White Flint area and always will be.
Desperately clinging to the defunct “White Flint” name. Why don’t you ask Federal Realty, owner of Pike & Rose, if that’s how they want to be labeled?
Why does mentioning the name White Flint irritate some so much? Asking for a friend.
White Flint
JAC, all this time I've always considered you more baller than bowler!
Nobody who goes to Pinstripes in Pike and Rose thinks they’re in White Flint.
JAC, if it's any consolation,ir annoys the hell out of me that WF was rebranded as North Bethesda. Likewise with extending and / or adding compass points to Potomac, AU Park (in DC), Chevy Chase DC, (but there at least an historically thin thread that the 'Chevie Chase tract did extend down Wisconsin Ave to around Albemarle St.and the like...
I refer to North Bethesda as South Rockville which is far more accurate.
Ha! Well, I used to think I was a ballet back in the CYO days. But I actually was a pretty darn good duck pin bowler many moons ago.
2:30 - Agree 💯
Nowadays you are the bowling ball.
I remember all the surveys, consultants and discussions about what to rename the White Flint area - NoBe, Pike District, etc
Then our council said heck it, call it North Bethesda. Logically, it made no sense for Metro with Grosvenor in between.
It helps realtors and home sellers who can use it as the home address. Suddenly the old ramblers behind White Flint Mall become North Bethesda instead of Rockville.
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