Tom Guinney, one of the three co-founders of Utah’s Market Street Grill and Oyster Bar restaurants — and the man responsible for its signature clam chowder — died last week of natural causes.
Before his death, Guinney had sold all of the restaurants’ assets to an experienced — but unnamed —local restaurateur, spokesman John Becker told The Salt Lake Tribune. “Tom’s hope was that the Market Street Grill and Oyster Bar restaurants would continue to serve the finest, freshest seafood for many years to come."
The name of the buyer and the terms of the sale are confidential, Becker said, but "we anticipate it will be business as usual” for patrons and employees, who were informed of the sale shortly after Guinney’s passing.