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Casa Bonita Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

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LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) — An iconic Colorado restaurant has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The owners of Casa Bonita in Lakewood filed papers in Arizona last week.

Chapter 11 gives a business the chance to reorganize their debt and pay creditors over time. The court documents do not specify how much the company owes.

Casa Bonita is famous for its bright pink façade, cave divers who jump from a three-story indoor waterfall, Mariachi music and skits featuring someone in a gorilla costume.

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LAKEWOOD, CO - JANUARY 11: Mexican restaurant Casa Bonita has been a memory-making institution for decades, filling children with countless sopapillas and dreams of plummeting from the top of a man-made, three-story indoor waterfall while people eat tacos, listen to Mariachi music and watch puppet shows around them. January 11, 2019. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Just last month, owners announced Casa Bonita would re-open "soon" in a posting on their website.

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LAKEWOOD, CO - JANUARY 11: Las Sopaipillas of Casa Bonita. Sopaipillas is Mexican Pastry Dessert With Honey. January 11, 2019. Mexican restaurant Casa Bonita has been a memory-making institution for decades, filling children with countless sopapillas and dreams of plummeting from the top of a man-made, three-story indoor waterfall while people eat tacos, listen to Mariachi music and watch puppet shows around them. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The restaurant, which opened in 1974, shut its doors in March 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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