MEMPHIS, TENN., December 6, 2024 – Memphis community advocate and investor Darrell Horn is offering to pay out-of-work Houston’s Restaurant employees in Memphis through the holidays. Horn wants to rename, reimagine, and reopen the restaurant to have original Houston’s influences, but it will be locally owned and invested in the Memphis community and employees. Horn is aggressively reaching out to Hillstone Restaurant Group to lease the space and equipment to him in order for his group’s plans, including paying Houston’s employees through the holidays, to come to fruition. Unfortunately, the two parties have not been able to make contact as of noon Friday, December 6.

“As a native Memphian who had a love for Houston’s, the location of the restaurant, and certainly Memphis, I was appalled to hear of the abrupt closing after 40 years of support from the Memphis community. I am offering to continue to pay the staff through the holidays if Hillstone will lease the space and equipment to our group and allow us to reimagine and reestablish it as a locally owned restaurant that is invested in and supports the Memphis community just as this great Memphis community supports our locally owned restaurants,” said Darrell Horn, local philanthropist, investor, and entrepreneur.

Horn is asking for out-of-work Houston’s Memphis employees at all levels to email him at Darrell@houstons2.com to discuss continued employment while they reestablish the restaurant operation with goals to open in January.