restaurants. Within one week, we modified operations at 15 locations to add take-out only service. As restrictions were lifted over the next few months, wewere able to gradually reopen more restaurants at reduced indoor dining capacities and we also started offering outdoor dining at certain locations.
To support our employees during this challenging time, we continued paying normal payrolls to all employees through April 5, 2020 and toall kitchen employees through May 9, 2020. After those dates, we furloughed most employees but continued to pay store managers and key kitchen staff throughout the periods when their respective restaurants were temporarily closed. We alsocontinued to pay the employee portion of all furloughed employees health insurance through July 31, 2020. As our restaurants reopened with expanding capacities during late spring and summer of 2020, we were able to invite back many of ourfurloughed employees.
In response to the ongoing pandemic, we prioritized actions to protect the health and safety of our employees andcustomers. We increased cleaning and sanitizing protocols in our restaurants and implemented additional training and operational manuals for our restaurant employees, as well as increased handwashing procedures. We provided each restaurant employeewith face masks and gloves, and required each employee to pass a health screening process, which included a temperature check, before the start of each shift.
The temporary restaurant closures and the reduced capacities at the reopened restaurants caused a substantial decline in our sales. In lightof the challenges posed by the pandemic, we focused on maximizing our restaurant dining capacity by adding temporary outdoor dining at certain locations. Beyond prioritizing actions to help assure a safe environment for our employees and customers,we worked hard to maintain our operational efficiencies as much as possible to preserve our liquidity.
Although we temporarily paused ournew restaurant opening plans during the pandemic, our long-term growth strategy is to continue to open new restaurants in locations that we believe will achieve profitability levels consistent with ourpre-pandemic experience. During 2022, we opened three new restaurants and we have nine new restaurant locations with leases that have been signed. These locations are in Kapolei, Hawaii, Fort Lauderdale,Florida, Chandler, Arizona, Westheimer, Texas, Seattle, Washington, Jacksonville, Florida, Dallas, Texas, Maui, Hawaii and Cerritos, California (at which we opened a new restaurant on April 4, 2023). We currently expect to open six or sevenadditional locations during the rest of 2023. Future sales and profitability levels of our restaurants and our ability to successfully implement our growth strategy in the near term, however, remain uncertain, as the full impact and duration of thepandemic continues to evolve as of the date of this prospectus.
Recent Events Concerning Our Financial Position
During 2020, we entered into various agreements with Pacific City Bank, which provided for loans in the amount of $9.5 million, or the2020 PPP Loans, and $0.9 million in Economic Injury Disaster Loans, or the EIDL Loans, pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program under the CARES Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020. By the end of 2021, we had received loan forgivenesson the 2020 PPP Loans in the amount of $9.2 million, and recorded the amount of the forgiven balances in Gain on extinguishment of debt in 2021.
During 2021, we also entered into several additional Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, agreements, which provided for an additionalaggregate loan in the amount of $13.5 million, or the 2021 PPP Loans, and together with the 2020 PPP Loans, the PPP Loans, as of October 6, 2021. During the month of December 2021, we received notices of loan forgiveness related tothe 2021 PPP Loans that totaled $13.1 million. In addition, we have received approximately $16.8 million in Restaurant Revitalization Fund grants. These grants were recognized as income as the money was spent, with $13.0 millionrecorded as income as of December 31, 2021, and $3.8 million was deferred as of December 31, 2022 and March 31, 2023. During 2022, we received notices of forgiveness of $0.4 million related to the 2021 PPP Loans and recorded itas a Gain on extinguishment of debt in 2022. The remaining unforgiven PPP Loan balance of $0.3 million was repaid in 2022. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, we received $2.6 million and$1.3 million, respectively, in additional EIDL loans. There are no additional EIDL loans expected.
During 2022, we entered into anew line of credit for $8.0 million with Pacific City Bank with the funds used to pay off related party loans payable. The line of credit matures in September 2023. The line of credit outstanding balance at March 31, 2023 was $6.7 million.
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