{"id":348975,"date":"2026-07-22T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348975\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:08:08","slug":"hamburger-marys-closes-in-murray-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348975\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburger Mary\u2019s closes in Murray Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murray Hill drag bar and restaurant Hamburger Mary\u2019s closed abruptly last week.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2024\/dec\/02\/hamburger-marys-plans-to-open-in-murray-hill-as-early-as-december\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened last spring<\/a> at 947 Edgewood Ave. S., a year and a half <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2023\/10\/12\/devastating-fire-damages-hamburger-marys-in-jacksonville\/?omhide=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after a devastating fire<\/a> destroyed the chain\u2019s previous Jacksonville location on Beach Boulevard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Customers learned about the closure from a handwritten sign posted on the door. Court records show a judge issued the business an eviction order July 13, and the space is already listed for lease.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Jordyn Shepherd publicly posted online about the restaurant\u2019s financial difficulties in recent months. She created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-save-hamburger-marys-jacksonville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a GoFundMe page<\/a> on July 5 seeking $7,000 in donations to help keep Hamburger Mary\u2019s open, saying the money would go toward paying for rent, operating expenses and repairing the air conditioning. She similarly asked for donations from the public in March.<\/p>\n<p>On the fundraising page, Shepherd also addressed rumors that she has been using the restaurant\u2019s money to live a \u201clavish lifestyle.\u201d A Facebook page called Hamburger Mary\u2019s Jacksonville Victims has perpetuated those rumors and shared a number of allegations that Shepherd has repeatedly failed to pay employees. Shepherd has denied those allegations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murray Hill drag bar and restaurant Hamburger Mary\u2019s closed abruptly last week. The restaurant opened last spring at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[558,43323,116,118,117,7908,115,687],"class_list":["post-348975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-business","tag-distribute","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-murray-hill","tag-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348975","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=348975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}