Club Bankruptcy

Club Casablanca, a bar and restaurant located off Brattle Street, last month filed for bankruptcy, but its manager said yesterday the establishment has no plans to close in the immediate future.

Michael Madden said Casablanca has incurred most of its $371,000 debt from the "unmitigated failure" of another Casablanca in Providence which closed last April Madden said that his outlet in Cambridge "does very well" adding that changes had just been made within the Club's internal structure to make sure the club's debt would be paid back. He refused to elaborate.

John Whitlock, the attorney for Casablanca, said that the club owes most of its debt in taxes to the government, adding that the club's owners will be meeting with a special committee of its private creditors overseen by a U.S. government trustee June 22 to discuss repayment of Casablanca's debt.