JOLIET – The Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery at the Louis Joliet Mall apparently rang in the new year and then closed.
New Year's Eve was the last day of business, said a spokeswoman at Tilted Kilt's corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona.
More information about the closing was not available.
The Joliet location becomes the latest of a few Tilted Kilt restaurants to close in recent years. Other closings have been in Elgin, Gurnee and Vernon Hills.
Tilted Kilt still has 10 restaurants in Illinois, including locations in Bolingbrook and Woodridge.
Tilted Kilt restaurants are known for their female wait staff dressed in revealing plaid skirts and tops.
The Joliet restaurant opened in late 2011 during the holiday season. It moved into a hard-to-fill restaurant location that had last been occupied by a Bishop's Buffet restaurant.
Louis Joliet Mall Manager Eric Loula said other possibilities are being explored for the space, which is 5,000 square feet.
"Every store and every restaurant in the mall, no matter what type of business, does go through a life cycle," Loula said. "We are still about 100 percent occupied. The mall's doing well. So, we have other ideas for the space."