The Lookout Kitchen, a chain of restaurants operating in Oklahoma State Parks, will close at the end of September, according to a letter sent to employees and obtained by News 9.

In the letter, all locations will remain open until Sept. 30, after which all locations will close. The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department later confirmed the closure in a news release Thursday afternoon.

Earlier this year, the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department (OTRD) announced the closure of the restaurant located in six Oklahoma national parks.

At the time, OTRD said the restaurant failed to "make outstanding payments and fulfill other contractual obligations to the State."

In the letter sent to The Lookout Kitchen employees, owner Paul Wilson says those claims are "simply not true."

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