2 Local Hardee’s Stores Shuttered Suddenly

Quad City Times:

Two Hardee’s restaurants - one in west Davenport and one in Aledo, Ill. - were closed abruptly Monday, apparently as part of a corporate refranchising effort.

According to employees at the Davenport location, 2202 Rockingham Road, there was little to no notice.

“I spoke to my manager and she said she was in there working around 10:30 when (managers from other area stores) came in and told her it was being closed,” said Steve Schutters, a cook and cashier. “They started throwing all the food away and were pulling things down and packing them up.”

Employees from the Aledo store could not be reached.

Jenna Petroff, a public relations manager from Hardee’s corporate office in St. Louis, said the stores were closed as “a business decision.”

Both the Rockingham Road and Aledo stores were corporate-run, rather than franchised operations, she confirmed.

Nationally, 70 percent of Hardee’s stores are franchises and the company is hoping to increase that number, Petroff said.