One of Fort Mill’s longest-serving places to eat is closing. Here’s what we know
Hardee’s in downtown Fort Mill won’t reopen Tuesday.
The drive-thru was open but the dining room closed Monday afternoon. Employees at the store told customers Monday is the last day the restaurant will be open. Several people shared online earlier in the day they’d been informed, as customers, the store would close.
Immediate efforts to obtain comment from the corporate office for Hardee’s were unsuccessful.
The Tom Hall Street restaurant sits at the top of Main Street. Decades of diners have come and gone there, many of them in breakfast meeting clubs when Fort Mill had far fewer places to gather. Former U.S. Rep. John Spratt, Jane McColl and Hugh McColl sold the downtown property to Spartan Food Systems in 1978 for the restaurant. That company became Hardees Food Systems.
Hardees Restaurants out of Tennessee owns the 3,000-square-foot restaurant site now. In addition to food, the property has one of the larger parking areas in a downtown that’s grown with restaurants and shops in recent years.
The nearest Hardee’s locations are on Gold Hill Road between Fort Mill and Tega Cay, and at Rock Hill sites on Herlong Avenue and Mana Court. York and Clover have other locations.
This story was originally published April 17, 2023 at 5:06 PM.
