Last week, O'Charley's closed every one of its restaurants overnight. No warning to customers, barely any warning to employees, website gone, social media gone. I used to eat there. It was good. Then, a few years back, our local one closed, and honestly I didn't think much of it at the time. Just another restaurant that didn't make it. But when I looked into what actually happened, it wasn't sudden at all. The ending was sudden. The dying took about fifteen years. That gap, b

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