The On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina at Sikes Senter Mall in Wichita Falls is set to close, an employee told News Channel 6, and no exact date has been posted for the Wichita Falls location.
The restaurant’s local manager told the same outlet that all On The Border locations would be closing, but did not provide a specific reason for the decision. Staff at the Sikes Senter site confirmed the closure plans to the reporter; no signs announcing a shutdown have been placed on the restaurant’s doors or windows.
For patrons and employees, the immediate impact is uncertainty over timing and staffing. The manager’s statement that every On The Border site will close frames the Wichita Falls announcement as part of a wider action affecting the chain, but the absence of a timetable means shift schedules, final pay arrangements and severance — if any — remain unresolved for employees.
Local customers have not been given practical details either. The Wichita Falls outlet had no posted notice of a closing when checked, leaving diners who rely on the restaurant’s hours or gift-card holders unable to plan. An employee’s tip to the news crew supplied the first public confirmation of the plan for this location.
The situation contains a sharp contradiction: earlier, staff had publicly said, "We are absolutely not closing," even as closure plans were being reported. That discrepancy highlights a breakdown in messaging between on-site staff and the chain’s broader decision-making — and it deepens questions about when employees and customers were informed and by whom.
The local manager’s comment that all On The Border locations will shut provides a rough scope but not a cause. Without a stated reason from management, the single most consequential unanswered question is why the chain is taking this step. Whether the decision stems from corporate restructuring, lease issues, finances, or another factor will determine how rapidly affected locations move toward an actual closing date and what remedies, if any, are available to workers.
What happens next hinges on formal confirmation from the chain. For now, Wichita Falls staff and patrons have only the report and the manager’s broad claim about all locations closing; no exact closure date has been set for the Sikes Senter restaurant. The next concrete development readers should watch for is a corporate statement or a posted notice at the Wichita Falls site specifying when the restaurant will stop serving customers.
Until the chain provides that timetable and explains the rationale, the On The Border at Sikes Senter remains in limbo: publicly flagged to close, but operating without a scheduled end date and without the explanation that would allow employees, customers and the mall to plan next steps.
