Little Caesars interior
Little Caesars (2,300 square feet)
6939 George Washington Memorial Highway, Gloucester, VA
Opened May 17th, 2017; originally 2005-built Bill Hudgins Pontiac/GMC, later Bay Transit (2008-May 2015)
It's interesting to me when a chain restaurant pulls out of a town and then reappears again after a few years, which is what happened with Little Caesars in Gloucester County. For two decades they were a tenant of the York River Crossing center in Hayes, opening during the chain's boom in the late 1980s and surviving the massive purge of company-owned locations in the area in July 1999 (that location and single locations in Newport News and Hampton were the only survivors out of about a dozen). Then one day in August 2008 they permanently closed without warning, during a period in the company where they seemed to be floundering (I never saw TV commercials for them back then, for example). Little Caesars bounced back in a major way in the 2010s, which is when franchisee Tidewater Pie came along and brought them back to Gloucester, this time in the Courthouse area. They occupy this corner space, which never really seemed to be designed for restaurant use but Tidewater Pie made it work. They were even able to install a drive-thru window on the right side back in 2020! It's good to have them back in town.
Little Caesars interior
Little Caesars (2,300 square feet)
6939 George Washington Memorial Highway, Gloucester, VA
Opened May 17th, 2017; originally 2005-built Bill Hudgins Pontiac/GMC, later Bay Transit (2008-May 2015)
It's interesting to me when a chain restaurant pulls out of a town and then reappears again after a few years, which is what happened with Little Caesars in Gloucester County. For two decades they were a tenant of the York River Crossing center in Hayes, opening during the chain's boom in the late 1980s and surviving the massive purge of company-owned locations in the area in July 1999 (that location and single locations in Newport News and Hampton were the only survivors out of about a dozen). Then one day in August 2008 they permanently closed without warning, during a period in the company where they seemed to be floundering (I never saw TV commercials for them back then, for example). Little Caesars bounced back in a major way in the 2010s, which is when franchisee Tidewater Pie came along and brought them back to Gloucester, this time in the Courthouse area. They occupy this corner space, which never really seemed to be designed for restaurant use but Tidewater Pie made it work. They were even able to install a drive-thru window on the right side back in 2020! It's good to have them back in town.