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Kevin Hart’s Ambitious Vegan Fast-Food Chain Suddenly Closed All Locations Overnight

Hart House abruptly calls it quits after only two years on the scene

In 2020, Hart announced that he adopted a mostly plant-based diet and began working with Hooper to develop a fast-food brand selling chicken sandwiches, nuggets, and burgers for under $8 and combo meals for less than $15. “Opening on the corner of Sunset and Highland, across the street from Hollywood High School, adjacent to a Chick-fil-A, a couple 100 yards from an In-N-Out, [and inside] a former McDonald’s building is about as emblematic as you can get of our aspiration to be the future of quick-service restaurants,” Hooper told Eater in 2023. In early September 2024, the ambitious East Coast burger chain Shake Shack shuttered five Los Angeles-area stores, including Culver City, Silver Lake, Koreatown, Downtown, and Canoga Park.

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