After 30 years, Olive Garden parent company Darden Restaurants Inc., is closing all its remaining Bahama Breeze locations.
Founded in 1996, Bahama Breeze offered guests “Caribbean inspired food, handcrafted drinks, and a vibrant island atmosphere.”
Now, those days are coming to an end.
Darden Restaurants Inc., the restaurant conglomerate responsible for Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze and seven other restaurant chains, confirmed it would close all 28 of its remaining Bahama Breeze locations over the next few months.
“The company has now determined that it will permanently close 14 Bahama Breeze restaurants and plans to convert the remaining 14 locations into another Darden brand,” the company said in a statement.
“The company does not expect these actions to have a material impact on its financial results.”
The closures are expected to be complete by April 5, 2026.
The transformations are expected to be completed over the next 12 to 18 months, though the company did not confirm which brands would be taking over the spaces.
Darden said the reason for closing these stores is because they are no longer “a strategic priority.”
Locations closing permanently:
- 500 Center Blvd., Newark, Delaware
- 3590 Breckenridge Blvd., Duluth, Georgia
- 12395 SW 88th St., Miami, Florida
- 10205 Rivercoast Drive, Jacksonville, Florida
- 1251 West Osceola Pkwy., Kissimmee, Florida
- 11000 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines, Florida
- 1540 Rinehart Road, Sanford, Florida
- 19600 Haggerty Road, Livonia, Michigan
- 2000 Route 38, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- 3309 Wake Forest Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina
- 320 Goddard Blvd. King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
- 6100 Robinson Center Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 2714 Potomac Mills Circle, Woodbridge, Virginia
- 15700 Southcenter Pkwy., Tukwila, Washington
Locations being converted into other Darden restaurants:
- 499 E Altamonte Drive, Altamonte Springs, Florida
- 805 Brandon Town Center Drive, Brandon, Florida
- 14701 S Tamiami Trail, Ft. Myers, Florida
- 8160 Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy., Kissimmee, Florida
- 25830 Sierra Center Blvd., Lutz, Florida
- 5620 W. Oak Ridge Road, Orlando, Florida
- 8849 International Drive, Orlando, Florida
- 8735 Vineland Ave., Orlando, Florida
- 1200 N Alafaya Drive, Orlando, Florida
- 3045 N Rocky Point Drive East, Tampa, Florida
- 755 Ernest W Barrett Pkwy NW, Kennesaw, Georgia
- 570 Cross Creek Mall, Fayetteville, North Carolina
- 7811 Rivers Ave., Charleston, South Carolina
- 4554 Virginia Beach, Blvd., Virginia Beach, Virginia
