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The restaurant served its last mealsMay 31. The Thire Street restaurant employed 45 to50 people. Jess e Jabot, vice president of operations and chiefd operating officerof Harry’s Seafood and Grillw LLC, said the recession forced the company to close the restaurant after 14 years becausde sales had been down there significantlhy since 2008. “We tried to keep it open as long as we Jabot said. “It was a very toughh decision to make.” It was the second toug decision the company was forced to make in as many The Roosevelt Boulevard location that employec 40 to 45 people closefin April.
The first Harry’s Seafood, whicyh was not a full service opened in the Jacksonville Landingin 1987. That location sold and changex names, however, and the Jacksonville-based company startee opening full service restaurants in North andCentral Florida, eventually growing to eight locations — includingb three in Jacksonville. The last remainintg Jacksonville location, which is also the site of the corporatd headquarters on Gate willremain open. The other locatione in St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Tallahassee, Lakeland and Tampa will also remaihn open, Jabot said.
Jabot said the companyy does hope to open another Jacksonville locatiohn in a yearor two, but there are no definit plans yet.