Shari's Cafe & Pies

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Shari's Cafe & Pies
Company type Private
Industry Foodservice
Founded1978;46 years ago (1978)
Hermiston, Oregon, U.S.
Headquarters Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.
Key people
Samuel Borgese (CEO) [1]
Revenue$121.4 million [2]  (2023)
OwnerGather Holdings [3]
Subsidiaries Coco's Bakery
Website sharis.com
Footnotes /references
Company data. [4]

Shari's Cafe & Pies, originally known as Shari's Restaurants, is a chain of family dining restaurants in the western United States based in Beaverton, Oregon. [5] [6] Its restaurants are pie-oriented. [7] The franchise's original restaurant was opened in Hermiston, Oregon, in 1978. Shari's are known for their familiar hexagonal building design. [8] As of December 2024, 11 locations appear in the store location listing. [9]

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History

Shari's logo (2003-2011) SharisLogo.jpg
Shari's logo (2003–2011)

Shari's began in Hermiston, Oregon, in 1978 with Ron and Sharon "Shari" Bergquist as proprietors. [10] The two ran the company for seven years. By 1999, Shari's was the ninth-largest family restaurant chain in the United States based on total sales, and sixth in growth. [11] [ better source needed ]

Shari's logo from 2011 Shari's Cafe and Pies Logo.png
Shari's logo from 2011

In March 1999, the chain was acquired by Fairmont Capital Inc. for $60 million. [12] At that time Shari's operated 96 locations in seven states with 4,000 employees and $128 million in annual revenue. [12] They were still the ninth largest family chain in 2003. [13]

Shari's lost a gender discrimination lawsuit in April 2005 and was ordered to pay $122,225 in damages. [14] [15] In December 2005, the company was purchased by New York private investment firm Circle Peak Capital. [10]

President Larry Curtis retired in July 2008 after 24 years with Shari's and was succeeded by Bruce MacDiarmid. [16] In 2009, Shari's Restaurants took ownership of a number of northern California Baker's Square restaurants and converted them to operate under Shari's name. [17]

The chain is currently operated by Shari's Management Corporation in Beaverton. Most, but not all locations are open 24 hours a day, with a focus on specialty pies. [18] Samuel Borgese was named CEO in September 2017, replacing MacDiarmid. [1] [5] In mid-2017, the company was operating 95 locations in the states of California, Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, just one fewer than in the year 2000. [1] [19]

In September 2018, it was announced that Shari's Cafe & Pies had taken over Carrows and Coco's Bakery. [20] [21]

Location in Garden Home, Oregon in 2009. (Now closed) Garden Home Oregon Sharis.JPG
Location in Garden Home, Oregon in 2009. (Now closed)

In August 2024, it was announced that Shari's Cafe & Pies has been behind on payments for both property, taxes and services rendered for the restaurant chain. [22] As a result, a large number of Shari's locations permanently closed. [23] By early October 2024, the number of locations had declined to 49, operating in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. [24] In late October, all Oregon locations closed abruptly, dropping the remaining number of locations to seventeen. [25] Shari's owes around $900,000 to the Oregon Lottery for their video lottery machines. [26]

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  12. 1 2 Fairmont, execs buy Shari's chain for $ 60M. Nation's Restaurant News, March 15, 1999.
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