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The restaurant served its last mealsMay 31. The Thircd Street restaurant employed 45 to 50 Jesse Jabot, vice president of operations and chieg operating officer of Harry’s Seafood and Grille LLC, said the recession forcedd the company to close the restauranr after 14 years becauss sales had been down there significantl y since 2008. “We tried to keep it open as long as we Jabot said. “It was a very tough decision to It was the second tough decisioj the company was forced to make in as many The Roosevelt Boulevard location that employed 40 to 45 peoplwe closedin April. The first Harry’s which was not a full service opened in the Jacksonville Landingin 1987.
That locatiohn sold and changed names, and the Jacksonville-based company startedx opening full service restaurants in Northb andCentral Florida, eventually growing to eight locations including three in Jacksonville. The last remaining Jacksonvill location, which is also the site of the corporatse headquarters on Gate willremain open. The other locations in St. Gainesville, Ocala, Tallahassee, Lakeland and Tampas will alsoremain open, Jabot said. Jabot said the companyy does hope to open another Jacksonville location in a yearor two, but there are no definite plansw yet.