The red lights that spell out where diners can find fast, late-night eats are about to be turned back on. Three of the eight Filiberto’s Mexican Food restaurants that abruptly closed in June reopened on Thursday.

Filiberto’s restaurants in Phoenix, at 91st Avenue and Thomas Road, in Apache Junction, near Signal Butte Road and Main Street, and in Peoria, off 83rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road, are again welcoming customers starting Thursday, said Luis Espinoza, a commercial real estate broker who represents the restaurant group.

Those and five other restaurants were owned and operated by a franchisee, Compadres Group. The restaurants were shuttered because Compadres Group CEO John Schwimmer experienced personal "unforeseen medical issues," Cesar Tenorio, a member of the family that fou

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