Checkers Drive In Restaurants

About Us

With a seasoned and principled leadership and support team, along with a strong national presence, Checkers has had strong consecutive same store sales performance. The Company owned restaurants were second only to McDonalds in the hamburger QSR category in fiscal 2011.

With nearly 800 restaurants and 25 plus years' experience, Checkers is consistently ranked highest in overall value by guests in the category – thriving in both booming and retracting economies. The company owns and operates 300 restaurants to ensure both products and initiatives are tested before rollout to the franchise community. In fact, Checkers has added new product lines, such as Classic Wings and Cold Creations, while preserving its craveable food and menu simplicity. The Company has meaningfully improved restaurant profitability by implementing a nimble, metrics-driven management style and developing efficiencies across the business. The results of this new orientation are highly tangible and include more effective food cost controls and a streamlined supply chain and distribution system.

Build Out Options

Checkers offers build-out options at multiple investment levels to help those restaurateurs of all sizes to own a business. In three short years, Checkers conceptualized and built four new restaurant formats, dramatically reducing the investment level. Formats include:

• New freestanding prototype option


• Inline option


• End cap/single drive thru option


• Conversion of an existing restaurant

These varied restaurant formats allow restaurateurs to fit Checkers on any site with compelling returns.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for both individuals with prior restaurant/business experience and those who are seeking a financial investment. Our financial criteria are:

• Minimum $750,000 net worth


• $250,000 liquid assets

Checkers is a proud supporter of the International Franchise Association's VetFran program.

Checkers Drive In Restaurants is currently accepting inquiries from the following states: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming.

Interested parties should have at least $200,000 in liquid capital to invest.