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The Jim’s at 11803 Bandera Road join’s a list of closures that includes longtime diners on Broadway and Hildebrand Avenue.
San Antonio diner chain Jim’s Restaurants is set to lose another location this month.
The Jim’s at 11803 Bandera Road will close Aug. 19 after 27 years in business, officials revealed in Facebook post. The company’s statement called the decision “difficult” but unavoidable and attributed it to access issues caused by recent changes to the intersection’s road design.
The Current reached out to Jim’s officials for more details but got no comment by press time.
The shutdown marks the first Jim’s closure this year. It follows the company’s decision to shutter two longtime stores in 2024 — one on Broadway and the other on San Pedro and Hildebrand avenues.
Jim’s cited no reason for closing the 53-year-old Broadway location. However, officials blamed high operational costs and “challenges posed by our current economy” for pulling the plug on the Hildebrand location.
Since opening its first restaurant in 1963, Jim’s has become as much a part of San Antonio’s food identity as breakfast tacos and chispas. The business initially began in 1947 near Brackenridge Park, where founder Jim Hasslocher began selling watermelon and burgers. The humble concept evolved into the Frontier Drive-In and ultimately what became Jim’s Restaurants.
Ten other San Antonio Jim’s locations remain open, the company noted in its post about the Bandera Road closure. The statement encouraged customers to visit one of its nearby restaurants.
“You might even see a familiar face from our Bandera team,” the post concluded.
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