The Carmen Anthony Restaurant Group is closing its Waterbury and New Haven locations, according to Waterbury Mayor Neil O'Leary's office.
The mayor received a call from the owner, Carmen Anthony Vacalebre to let him know, the mayor's office confirmed. Carmen Anthony Restaurant in Waterbury was the first location Vacalebre opened in 1996, according to the Carmen Anthony website.
That means the Carmen Anthony Fishhouse at 757 South Main Street in Woodbury is the only remaining location the restaurant group operates, according to the Carmen Anthony website. The restaurant opened in 1998. The New Haven and Waterbury locations have been removed from the website entirely.
The Carmen Anthony Steakhouse of New Haven restaurant was the restaurant group's newest location and opened in 2004.
It's unclear how many employees were affected by the closings, the mayor's office said, and it's unknown whether the restaurant group will offer any of them jobs at its Woodbury location.
NBC Connecticut reached out to the restaurant group for comment and we did not hear back by the time of publication.
In 2012, the restaurant group closed the doors to its Avon Carmen Antony Fishhouse location, which opened at the 51 East shops in 1999, selling its assets to The Grist Mill, Avon Patch reported.
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Vacalebre is a Waterbury native and resident, who started off in fast food at McDonald's 1966, graduating from the McDonald's Hamburger University, according to the Carmen Anthony's website. He opened an independent fast food restaurant in Wolcott in 1969 and a second Me-Ma's location in Waterbury in 1972 before transitioning to fine dining and opening the Carmen Anthony restaurants in the late 1990s, the website said.
