Employer · WARN Act history · Accommodation & Food Services
Elmer's Restaurants
753 workers across 4 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 753
- Workers cut
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- WARN notices
- 2
- States
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- Avg / notice
Elmer's Restaurants has 4 recorded WARN filings affecting 753 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Elmer's Restaurants has 4 recorded filings covering 753 workers across 2 states, primarily WA, the 224th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Elmer's Restaurants is a minor share of Accommodation & Food Services WARN activity — 0.8% of the sector's 90,670 workers across 576 employers, ranking #14 in Accommodation & Food Services.
Elmer's Restaurants WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Elmer's Restaurants city concentration · single-city dominant
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
76.5% of named-city WARN workers for Elmer's Restaurants sit in Portland (576 of 753).
Lead city Portland · 76.5% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer ELMER-S-REST · Elmer's Restaurants 753 workers · 4 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-SHORT · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-DUAL · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 4 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #224
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-SHORT 0d
- STAT-MULTI 2 states
- BOOK-DUAL 2 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 4 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Elmer's Restaurants WARN filings · notice runway
Top 4 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Portland, OR · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 296 workers · filed Mar 16, 2020 · 1d runway
- Portland, OR · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 280 workers · filed Nov 13, 2020 · 0d runway
- Vancouver, WA · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 94 workers · filed Nov 18, 2020 · 0d runway
- Vancouver, WA · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 83 workers · filed Mar 18, 2020 · retroactive dates
Median forward runway across 4 dated filings: 0 days (4 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 3 same-day or retroactive).
Where Elmer's Restaurants Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Elmer's Restaurants is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#224 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Accommodation & Food Services
- First Notice
- Mar 16, 2020
- Latest Notice
- Nov 18, 2020
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Nov 2020.
WARN Notice History
2020
Vancouver, WA · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Nov 18, 2020
94
workers
Filed Nov 18, 2020
Portland, OR · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Nov 13, 2020
280
workers
Filed Nov 13, 2020
Vancouver, WA · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Mar 17, 2020
83
workers
Filed Mar 18, 2020
Portland, OR · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Mar 17, 2020
296
workers
Filed Mar 16, 2020
Questions about this Elmer's Restaurants record
What is the largest Elmer's Restaurants WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Portland, OR on Mar 16, 2020, covering 296 workers in Accommodation & Food Services.
Where were Elmer's Restaurants's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Vancouver and Portland; together they form 4 mass-layoff filings sourced from Washington ESD and Oregon WorkSource. States represented in this record: OR, WA.
Where is Elmer's Restaurants's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
76.5% of named-city WARN workers for Elmer's Restaurants sit in Portland (576 of 753).
Does Elmer's Restaurants's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 4 filings fall in 2020, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Elmer's Restaurants's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway is under 30 days; compare the filing dates with the federal 60-day baseline before estimating any possible notice-pay shortfall. Of 4 filings on record, 1 dated effective before the notice itself and 2 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Accommodation & Food Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Elmer's Restaurants notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.