What happened to barnacle bills in San Antonio?

Question

Does anyone know why they shut down these restaurants all of a sudden?
It seems that even the employees and management of the restaurants had no clue.

Answer 1

That place was only busy during LENT. My brother joked that it was a front for the Mexican Mafia

Answer 2

Actually Bill Millers sold off Barnacle Bills 5 years ago. Someone decided to scrape the Barnacles off San Antonio.

Answer 3

Actually not all of the food was fried. Anything you could get fried you could get grilled and sales were doing very well. They were doing about the same sales as Sea Island, Especially after lent. The only store that lost money was the store on Walzem and that's due to the mall closing over there. They were planning to expand the business and were starting plans for a new store on the west side.

Answer 4

Not sure, but too bad. True not the highest quality, but only locals think San Antonio has quality food anyway. Sea Island was horrible both times I went and slightly higher. The locals always say got to "Sea Island" for seafood. I'll pass. Ah...but the mexican food is fabulous here though and the people are great!

Answer 5

It closed do to poor sales. There food was very high priced and all fried, was not like Sea Island. This is the reason they are no long around.

Answer 6

they were owned by bill miller. the food sucked, and bill miller thinks every penny in san antonio belonges to him