{"id":143546,"date":"2026-02-04T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143546\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:38:08","slug":"tampa-bay-area-bahama-breeze-restaurants-converting-to-different-chains-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143546\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay-area Bahama Breeze restaurants &#8216;converting&#8217; to different chains in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three locations in the Tampa Bay area will convert into other Darden-branded restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Three Bahama Breeze restaurants in the Tampa Bay area will &#8220;convert&#8221; into different chains by mid-2027, according to parent company Darden Restaurants Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Darden announced Tuesday it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/bahama-breeze-closing-all-restaurants-list-of-locations\/507-745e848a-884f-451e-a413-69072f1267d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">closing 14 Bahama Breeze locations<\/a> and converting the remaining 14 into other Darden-owned restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay-area locations set to convert are:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remaining Florida restaurants, which are closing, are:<\/p>\n<p>12395 SW 88th St., Miami, FL10205 Rivercoast Drive, Jacksonville, FL1251 West Osceola Pkwy., Kissimmee, FL11000 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines, FL1540 Rinehart Road, Sanford, FL                    <\/p>\n<p>The Caribbean-themed casual-dining chain first opened its doors in Orlando in 1996. Since then, more than a dozen locations have opened across Florida, along with multiple restaurants in other states.<\/p>\n<p>Darden did not specify what the 14 locations will be converted into. Other chains owned by the company include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, and Cheddar&#8217;s Scratch Kitchen, Yard House and Ruth&#8217;s Chris Steak House.<\/p>\n<p>The locations set to permanently close will operate through April 6 of this year, the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The process of converting other locations is expected to be complete in the next 12-18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Previous reporting from Tegna Digital contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three locations in the Tampa Bay area will convert into other Darden-branded restaurants. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Three Bahama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-143546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143546","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=143546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}