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.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After every Shari’s in Oregon suddenly closed on Monday, the Oregon Lottery — which supplied video lottery machines to their locations — says the restaurant group owes them nearly $900,000. A Oregon Lottery spokesperson told ...

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.)

There’s no word yet on the exact reason for the closure of the family-style, comfort-food restaurant — or on how many employees were impacted. But as of Monday, Shari’s owes the Oregon Lottery over $900,

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.