The grocery store said this week that it will transition in-store restaurants across the midwest to its Hy-Vee Market Grille brand. Fans of the casual dining burger chain Wahlburgers will be disappointed to know that a majority of its locations will shutter within the next two weeks.

The Midwestern grocery chain will transition its in-store restaurants back to its own Market Grille concept, erasing a huge chunk of the

All of the grocer’s restaurants will introduce new menus with lower prices as the chain ends its partnership with the hamburger chain.

West Des Moines, Iowa-based Hy-Vee and Wahlburgers have partnered for years, and in 2020, the grocery store company began replacing Market Grilles with the burger restaurants. Even though it had converted only about one-third of its 229 Market Grille locations, Hy-Vee was still the largest single Wahlburgers franchisee.

Zoom in: That includes nine restaurants that operate inside of Twin Cities stores. The move will leave the metro area with just one location — inside of Mall of America. The Wahlburgers will take over that restaurant, which Hy-Vee operates, according to Restaurant Business.

Wahlburgers, a casual dining burger restaurant chain, will be replaced by Market Grille at Hy-Vee locations across the Midwest beginning this week.

Hy-Vee announces it will close its remaining in-store Wahlburgers and convert them back to Market Grille restaurants.

And Wahlburgers wasn't happy with the performance of its Hy-Vee locations and will now focus on standalone restaurants, CEO Randy Sharpe told Restaurant Business. Catch up quick: Wahlburgers is owned by Paul Wahlberg and his brothers,