Darden Restaurants<\/a> announced in February that 14 Bahama Breeze restaurants would close permanently across nine states and that the company would convert the remaining 14 locations into other Darden brand restaurants.<\/p>\nMany Bahama Breeze locations have already closed ahead of the last day of operations, which is Sunday, April 5.<\/p>\n
The company anticipates converting the remaining restaurants within the next 12 to 18 months. Darden did not disclose which specific brands these locations will be converted to, but other Darden brands include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Yard House, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen.<\/p>\n
A full list of store closures and conversions is below.<\/p>\n
\nBahama Breeze restaurants closing across nine states: See the list <\/p>\n
\nDelaware <\/p>\n
500 Center Blvd., Newark, DE <\/p>\n
\nFlorida <\/p>\n
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
\nGeorgia <\/p>\n
3590 Breckenridge Blvd., Duluth, GA <\/p>\n
\nMichigan <\/p>\n
19600 Haggerty Road, Livonia, MI <\/p>\n
\nNew Jersey <\/p>\n
2000 Route 38, Cherry Hill, NJ <\/p>\n
\nNorth Carolina <\/p>\n
3309 Wake Forest Drive, Raleigh, NC <\/p>\n
\nPennsylvania <\/p>\n
320 Goddard Blvd., King of Prussia, PA6100 Robinson Center Drive, Pittsburgh, PA <\/p>\n
\nVirginia <\/p>\n
2714 Potomac Mills Circle, Woodbridge, VA <\/p>\n
\nWashington <\/p>\n
15700 Southcenter Pkwy., Tukwila, WA <\/p>\n
\nBahama Breeze locations converting to different restaurants: Full list\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\nFlorida <\/p>\n
499 E. Altamonte Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL805 Brandon Town Center Drive, Brandon, FL14701 S. Tamiami Trail, Ft. Myers, FL8160 Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy., Kissimmee, FL25830 Sierra Center Blvd., Lutz, FL5620 W. Oak Ridge Road, Orlando, FL8849 International Drive, Orlando, FL8735 Vineland Ave., Orlando, FL1200 N. Alafaya Drive, Orlando, FL3045 N. Rocky Point Drive East, Tampa, FL <\/p>\n
\nGeorgia <\/p>\n
755 Earnest W. Barrett Pkwy. NW, Kennesaw, GA <\/p>\n
\nNorth Carolina <\/p>\n
570 Cross Creek Mall, Fayetteville, NC <\/p>\n
\nSouth Carolina <\/p>\n
7811 Rivers Ave., Charleston, SC <\/p>\n
\nVirginia <\/p>\n
4554 Virginia Beach Blvd., Virginia Beach, VA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Caribbean-themed restaurant said in February that it’s shuttering 14 restaurants and converting the remaining locations to other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-216885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216885","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=216885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}