Less than two years after entering the Chattanooga market as the anchor tenant for one of the biggest new buildings erected on M.L. King Boulevard, Slim & Husky’s pizzeria has closed the downtown restaurant.
The Nashville-based pizza chain is continuing to operate its other restaurant in Chattanooga at 515 Vine St. on the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus, which opened in August. But the larger and more visible Slim & Husky’s pizzeria at 401 M.L. King Blvd. shut down earlier this week.
Slim & Husky’s officials did not return messages, but a sign on the shuttered restaurant urged customers to visit the UTC campus site in the West Campus Building on Vine Street.
Billed as the nation’s largest Black-owned pizza chain, Slim & Husky’s Pizza opened in Chattanooga in June 2022 with a pizzeria and full-service bar and late-night service window on the first floor of the three-story building. The restaurant, which had nearly 50 full- and part-time employees at its peak, was one of a dozen locations for Slim & Husky’s in Tennessee and Georgia, and it was the first equipped with multiple kiosks offering digital ordering capabilities to customers.
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