Five Guys in Rehoboth Beach has closed
Without any warning, the Five Guys Burgers and Fries on Rehoboth Avenue in Rehoboth Beach has closed. Signs were taken down and paper hung inside the windows during Christmas week. There’s a heavy bike lock and cable around the door handles.
Five Guys is an Alexandria, Va.-based burger joint franchise that’s been around since the late 1980s.
This is the second time a Five Guys restaurant has opened and then closed on Rehoboth Avenue. The first opened in the early 2000s and closed down in 2011.
There used to be a Five Guys off Route 1 near Lewes in Mariner Plaza. That space is currently home to Pat’s Pizza, which took over the location in January 2012.
According to the corporate website for Five Guys, there are still eight franchise locations in Delaware, with the closest being in Bethany Beach at 111 Garfield Parkway.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
