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Food Fight Restaurant Group is closing Bluephies, the third of its 18 restaurants, at the end of the month to make way for a new concept, which will focus on healthful options.

"It’s bittersweet for us," Monty Schiro, Food Fight President and CEO, said in a release. "We have had 22 great years as Bluephies, and it has been a significant part of our group."

Bluephies, 2701 Monroe St., serves American comfort food with a contemporary twist.

"It still is very popular," allowed Greg Frank, a Food Fight managing partner. "It was time for a major remodel and so we thought about it. We hadn't been growing like we had in the past. We'd stabilized and are still doing great, but we said, 'How can we really look to the future and say, 'What's going to be working for the next 20 years?' "

Plans for the new restaurant haven't been finalized and Schiro is in Los Angeles this week with Food Fight's Chief Creative Officer Caitlin Suemnicht, who is leading the redesign effort.

The two are looking at different restaurants and concepts to see what might work here, Frank said. They are looking for "fresher, healthier options," he said. "That's, I think, the direction we are going to go."