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Bloomin' Brands layoff history

On February 20, 2025, Bloomin' Brands said it was laying off about 100 people at its Restaurant Support Center in Tampa, about 17% of the team there. It said the cut would align costs with the current size of its business after it re-franchised its Brazil operations in December 2024, and cited challenging industry trends too. It estimated about $7.5 million in one-time severance and other termination benefits under its established severance plans. Along with other administrative changes, it expected about $22 million a year in savings. This cut has no notice in our tracker, which holds 0 filings covering 0 jobs since the start of 2025. Federal WARN reserves the term mass layoff for a reduction in force, other than a plant closing, that causes employment losses at one site within 30 days for 50 or more people making up at least 33 percent of the staff there, or for 500 regardless, part-timers excluded.

Bloomin's other cuts on record since 2024 have been restaurant closings, at a company that counts about 64,000 team members and more than 1,440 restaurants worldwide. It shut 41 underperforming restaurants by February 23, 2024, and a spokesperson said many workers could transfer to open positions while those who didn't would get severance. In 2025 it decided to close 21 U.S. restaurants and not renew leases on 22 more, most of those leases running out within four years, and the 21 closed during October. At the Gainesville, Virginia Bonefish Grill, shut October 26, a spokesperson said the 60 employees could transfer and would get transition bonuses. Houston's Upper Kirby Fleming's, its lease expiring, had April 18, 2026 set as its last day, with transfers offered.

All 200 Bloomin' filings in our WARN tracker are dated March to May 2020. OS Restaurant Services' April 27, 2020 notice to South Dakota describes a WARN event from March 15 that it expected to reach its restaurants nationally. Dining room closures had brought significantly reduced hours for the vast majority of its restaurant employees, it said, and though it hadn't terminated any restaurant employee, it was filing in an abundance of caution in case the cut counted as a layoff. Federal law counts a cut of more than 50 percent in hours during each month of any six-month period as an employment loss. The notice said no severance pay existed; Bloomin' had reported four weeks of relief pay and free meals for hourly workers whose dining rooms closed. Take 200 as a minimum, since our archives for Connecticut, Michigan and several other states hold no 2020 rows.

Losing a job to a restaurant closing or a support center cut is rotten, and a sentence about lease timing or cost structure won't cover anyone's rent. Nothing Bloomin' offered in earlier rounds obliges it to repeat itself, so if a closing or cut reaches you, ask to see the offer written out before you choose, with the restaurant a transfer would put you in, the hours and pay there, and whether a bonus or severance depends on your answer. In Florida, home of the support center, FloridaCommerce says Rapid Response begins with a WARN filing or with news of a mass layoff reaching 50 workers or a permanent closing, however small, carried out by local workforce development boards.

Reporting on previous Bloomin' Brands layoff rounds

• April 2026, Fleming's in Houston · The Upper Kirby Fleming's at 2405 W. Alabama St., last day set for April 18. No headcount published.

  Transfers to another restaurant, per a Bloomin' representative. No severance terms on record.

• October 2025, 21 U.S. restaurants · 21 U.S. restaurants closed during October, plus a decision not to renew leases on 22 more

  Transfers and transition bonuses for the Gainesville, Virginia Bonefish Grill's 60 employees, per a spokesperson. Across the 21, an estimated $5.0 million to $7.0 million in related severance and closure charges.

• February 2025, Tampa support center · About 100 employees, about 17% of the Restaurant Support Center

  One-time severance and termination benefits under established severance plans, about $7.5 million in all. No per-person terms published.

• February 2024, 41 restaurants · 41 underperforming restaurants closed by February 23, among them Outback, Carrabba's and Bonefish Grill locations

  Transfers to open positions for many, severance for those who didn't transfer, a spokesperson said. No amounts published.

• Spring 2020, pandemic hours cuts · Hours significantly reduced for the vast majority of restaurant employees, none terminated, per an April 27 WARN notice

  Four weeks of relief pay and free meals for affected hourly staff. No severance pay, the notice said.

What to do after being laid off from Bloomin' Brands

1. File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Bloomin' Brands's biggest hubs: Florida, Texas, Georgia, Maryland. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
2. Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Bloomin' Brands's hub states run: Florida, Texas, Georgia, Maryland, and every other state is here.
3. Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
4. Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
5. Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.