JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville\u2019s Bahama Breeze location at the St. Johns Town Center will be closing its doors.<\/p>\n
The restaurant is owned by Darden Restaurants, which is based in Orlando and also owns Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The Jacksonville location and 13 other Bahama Breeze locations across the U.S. are shutting down, while 14 others are converting to other Darden brands.<\/p>\n It\u2019s part of what the company calls \u201cstrategic alternatives\u201d<\/a> for the Bahama Breeze brand.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n We told you in May<\/a> when Bahama Breeze closed 15 of its locations.<\/p>\n Jacksonville\u2019s St. Johns Town Center location was not impacted at that time, but will be closing because of Tuesday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n The 14 restaurants closing permanently are expected to continue operating through April 5.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville\u2019s Bahama Breeze location at the St. Johns Town Center will be closing its doors.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,69142,69143,347,69144,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,13311,346,345],"class_list":{"0":"post-142644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-bahama-breeze","10":"tag-bahama-breeze-jacksonville-fl","11":"tag-cbs47","12":"tag-darden-restaurants","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-fox30","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-fl","17":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","18":"tag-jacksonville-news","19":"tag-northeast-florida","20":"tag-southeast-georgia","21":"tag-st-johns-town-center","22":"tag-wfox","23":"tag-wjax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}