The Henpecked Chicken, a restaurant that opened this spring in downtown Chattanooga, closed Thursday after just a few months at its Market Street location.
The closure comes on the heels of the shut down or planned shuttering of a number of downtown restaurants.
Craig Perry, of Nashville-based Halo Restaurant Group, said The Henpecked Chicken had "great employees and staff, but there wasn't enough business."
"We didn't get the right concept for the neighborhood," he said. "It was our fault."
The restaurant, which was located at 405 Market St., was a new concept rolled out by the company.
The site, next to Jack's Alley, formerly held Noodles & Company, which operated for three years before closing in late 2015.
Among recent or planned restaurant closings are Porkers Bar-B-Que, long a fixture on the Southside, which plans to shut down today. Closer to the riverfront, 212 Market, ended a 25-year run this spring.
Sugar's Ribs on Broad Street closed last fall while World of Beer, located nearly across Market Street from the Henpecked Chicken, shut late last summer.
Jim Williamson, vice president of planning and development of River City Co., said there are differing reasons for the restaurant closings but thinks there's plenty of business to go around downtown.
"More people are living downtown," said the official for the downtown nonprofit redevelopment group.
While new eateries are popping up, Williamson doesn't believe there's "cannibalization" of one restaurant of another.
While parking is sometime blamed in the closings, he thinks there are other factors. For example, the River City official said, the decision to close 212 Market was due mostly to family reasons.
"If you've got the product people want, people will find a way to get there," Williamson said.
He didn't believe Halo gave The Henpecked Chicken enough time to succeed.
The Henpecked Chicken offered Nashville hot chicken and other menu items. Dave Story, the group's culinary director, said earlier this year that it was spending "under $500,000" to build out the restaurant site.
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