Irvine-based Restaurant Enterprises Group, which owns the El Torito, Bob's Big Boy and Charley Brown's restaurant chains, recently met with a group of potential buyers to discuss the possible sale of all or a portion of its assets.
According to Restaurant Enterprises' first-quarter financial report, filed this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company; representatives of W.R. Grace Corp., which formerly owned the restaurants; company bondholders and other creditors, including Marriott Corp., met with interested buyers on May 5.
