The demise of Shari’s restaurants in the Northwest has accelerated, with confirmation its remaining restaurants in its home state of Oregon are closed. The CEO of the restaurant’s parent company confirmed in an email to the Oregon Lottery that all of Oregon’s Shari’s restaurants were now closed, according to multiple Oregon media outlets Monday.

In a notice from management from Oregon Lottery reveals that all Shari's Café locations are closing their doors after failing to meet financial obligations.

Shari's restaurants in Oregon have closed their doors due to financial difficulties, leaving employees and customers in the dark until the company's official closure was announced.

The Oregon Lottery keeps a close eye on Shari’s because the retailer’s video lottery terminals generate substantial revenue. (In an earlier story about Shari’s troubles, KGW reported the chain collectively generated more than $34 million in lottery revenues last year, earning $7.45 million in commissions.)

I went on my first date to Shari‘s – a double date dinner before Corvallis High School’s winter formal my freshman year in 1997.

An “ever-changing and uncertain business environment” led to the mass closures at the family-dining chain, said Sam Borgese, head of

The Oregon Lottery has revealed that Shari's Restaurant Group owes them nearly $900,000 in unpaid funds, and the company is facing multiple lawsuits for failing to pay bills.

Open all night, and many of them close to the freeway, the restaurants in low-roofed hexagonal buildings had been a mainstay for Interstate 5 roadtrippers since the 1970s.

The Oregon Lottery got confirmation Oct. 21 that Shari’s Restaurants, the 24-hour pie and video lottery chain founded in Hermiston in 1978 and known for its distinctive hexagon-shaped stores, has served its last slice in Oregon.