Cheddar's at Cornerstone of Centerville has new owners

The Cheddar’s Casual Cafe that opened last summer at the Cornerstone of Centerville development in Centerville is among more than 40 locations sold by Cheddar’s largest franchise owner.

The buyer was Cheddar's corporate parent, Texas-based Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, which purchased 44 locations from its largest franchisee, Kentucky-based Greer Companies, according to Nation's Restaurant News (NRN). The deal — terms of which were not disclosed — turned the Irving, Tex.-based casual-dining chain into a predominantly company-run operation, NRN said.

Cheddar’s now directly operates 139 of the chain’s 164 locations, according to the restaurant trade publication and news site. Most restaurant chains are a combination of corporate-owned locations and franchisee-operated locations.

Greer operated its 44 Cheddar’s restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.

The 8,640-square-foot, free-standing restaurant on a four-acre parcel on the northeast corner of Wilmington Pike and Feedwire Road opened in June 2016 as Cheddar’s first Dayton-area location. It hired as many as 200 employees prior to its opening, a spokeswoman for Greer Companies said at the time.

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Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.