Bahama Breeze closes 2 South Florida restaurants: Report

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MIAMI – Caribbean-inspired edifice concatenation Bahama Breeze abruptly unopen down 15 locations nationwide and 2 are successful South Florida, according to USA Today.

A database obtained by the work shows that the Bahama Breeze astatine 2750 Sawgrass Mills Circle successful Sunrise and the determination astatine 3339 N. Federal Highway successful Oakland Park were unopen down.

“Closing a edifice is simply a hard prime due to the fact that it impacts our squad members and guests,” a spokesperson for genitor institution Darden Restaurants told USA Today. “However, we judge this is the close determination due to the fact that it volition let Bahama Breeze to absorption connected its highest performing restaurants and fortify the brand’s wide performance.”

An expert tells CNN that the closures underscore the “tough times casual eating restaurants are facing” arsenic disposable income shrinks owed to inflation.

Bahama Breeze, founded successful Orlando successful 1996, is down to 29 restaurants.

The chain’s locations astatine 11000 Pines Blvd. successful Pembroke Pines and 12395 SW 88th St. successful Miami-Dade’s Kendale Lakes country remained unfastened arsenic of Saturday, according to its website.