{"id":842275,"date":"2026-09-09T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842275\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:20:10","slug":"ocharleys-closing-all-locations-nationwide-after-55-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842275\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Charley\u2019s closing all locations nationwide after 55 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE \u2014 A longtime Tennessee restaurant is closing its doors.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville-based O\u2019Charley\u2019s Restaurant &amp; Bar will close all of its remaining company-owned locations nationwide Wednesday, ending the restaurant chain\u2019s 55-year run, according to The Tennessean.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at several Tennessee locations, including restaurants in Clarksville, Hermitage and Nashville, told The Tennessean that their locations would close at 8 p.m. Sept. 9.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Charley\u2019s has disabled its social media accounts and has not responded to multiple requests for comment, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was founded by Charles Watkins on 21st Avenue near Vanderbilt University in 1971, and Watkins sold the business in 1984 to David Watchel, a longtime Shoney\u2019s executive who expanded the chain to 45 locations by 1993.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Charley\u2019s operated 52 locations nationwide earlier this year, including eight in Middle Tennessee, according to The Tennessean.<\/p>\n<p>The O&#8217;Charley&#8217;s in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the last remaining location in the greater Chattanooga area, said they &#8220;weren&#8217;t allowed to talk about it&#8221; when our newsroom called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE \u2014 A longtime Tennessee restaurant is closing its doors. Nashville-based O\u2019Charley\u2019s Restaurant &amp; Bar will close all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-842275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}