O’Charley’s store closures: See a list of locations where the casual dining chain has shuttered restaurants

Another restaurant chain has closed locations. This time it’s the American casual dining chain O’Charley’s Restaurant & Bar, which is owned by Cannae Holdings Inc. And according to multiple media reports, the closures happened nearly out of the blue. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? This week, all of O’Charley’s Restaurant & Bar’s corporate-owned locations abruptly closed their doors, according to multiple media reports. The majority of the closures seems to have occurred on Wednesday, September 9, and took even the restaurant’s employees by surprise. O’Charley’s was founded in Nashville in 1971. At its height, it grew to a footprint of around 250 locations. But over the past several years, its current owner, Cannae Holdings, had drastically shrunk its footprint in an effort to cut costs and turn the struggling business around. This year, the company had only 49 corporate-owned locations left, with a few franchise locations as well. But as Restaurant Dive reports, those 49 locations began closing this week. As for its franchised stores, Nation’s Restaurant News reports that an employee at the Niles, Ohio, franchise location said the store will stay open “as long as p…