For many years a Checkers restaurant anchored the corner at West Broad Street and Hawthorne Avenue in Athens, until it shut down in 2019. Now, Checkers is rising again at the same intersection.
The old fast-food restaurant building is being completely overhauled as a new franchise group based in Atlanta is reopening the restaurant known for its variety of foods and the “best fries in the world.”
“Basically it will be a new Checkers at the same spot,” Shamsu Charania, managing partner for The Falcons Group, said this week.
After the original Checkers closed, Charania said the The Falcons Group acquired the location, along with Checkers at 21 other locations ranging from Atlanta, Augusta and Charleston, S.C.