Jason's Deli has closed its longtime location at 101 S. Coit Road, Ste. 385 in Richardson, ending a run at the Dal-Rich Towne Square shopping center as of last Friday. The Beaumont-based sandwich and salad chain announced the closure through a social media post, thanking loyal customers, its staff and the community for the memories built over the years.
The Coit Road closure was first reported by Community Impact, which noted the restaurant had served sandwiches, salads, baked potatoes and pasta from the site. The store sat inside Dal-Rich Towne Square, a 163,000-square-foot neighborhood shopping center anchored by Cottonwood Market at the intersection of Coit and Belt Line roads, according to Weitzman. The center is a historic retail property built in 1965 that has undergone major exterior renovations in recent years.
Richardson isn't losing the brand entirely. Jason's Deli still operates a second local outlet at 165 S. Plano Road, in eastern Richardson near Berkner Park, where dine-in, pickup, delivery and catering remain available, per the company's own location listing on jasonsdeli.com.
A Chain With Deep Texas Roots
Jason's Deli was founded on November 30, 1976, in Beaumont by Joe Tortorice Jr. and partners, and has since grown to 239 locations across 27 states as of mid-2025, according to background compiled on the company's history. The chain was named after Tortorice's eldest son, Jay. Over the decades, Jason's Deli built a reputation for early health-focused menu changes, including removing artificial trans fats in 2005, eliminating high-fructose corn syrup and MSG in 2008, and banning artificial dyes in 2010.
The Coit Road store itself had weathered earlier disruptions. In January 2018, it was among dozens of North Texas Jason's Deli locations swept up in a nationwide credit card security breach that compromised roughly two million customer cards through point-of-sale malware. The pandemic era brought further contraction system-wide: after COVID-19 hit in 2020, Jason's Deli permanently closed 22 locations — nearly 10% of its footprint at the time — while also temporarily pausing its signature salad bar, according to Restaurant Business.
Closure Fits a Rough Stretch for Texas Restaurants
The Richardson shutdown lands amid a broader wave of restaurant turnover across the state. Texas led all U.S. states and Canadian provinces in restaurant closures during the first half of 2026, with an estimated 1,039 locations shutting down — well ahead of second-place New York's 543, according to data from RestaurantData. Nationally, an estimated 8,171 restaurant locations closed across the U.S. and Canada over that same period, with chain-affiliated restaurants making up 52.1% of the total.
Still, fast-casual concepts like Jason's Deli have generally proven more resilient than full-service, sit-down restaurants. Research from Black Box Intelligence found that while 9% of full-service restaurants were at risk of closing in early 2026 due to cumulative inflation and declining traffic, only 4% of limited-service and fast-casual brands faced similar risk. Cumulative inflation since 2019 had pushed industry operating costs up by nearly a third, a burden that weighs especially heavily on restaurants with larger physical footprints. Typical Jason's Deli locations run about 4,500 square feet — nearly double the average fast-casual competitor like Chipotle — to accommodate extensive seating and open kitchen lines, larger footprints that translate into higher lease costs for operators.
Whether those cost pressures played any role in the Coit Road closure has not been detailed publicly; the company's statement focused on gratitude rather than an explanation. For now, Richardson diners looking for their Jason's Deli fix can still head to the S. Plano Road location, while the Coit Road storefront in Dal-Rich Towne Square awaits its next tenant.
