This Fast Food Chain Closing More Stores —​ Including In MD

Fast food sandwich staple Arby’s closed dozens of restaurants last year and has continued to shutter locations throughout 2025, including in Maryland, according to reports.

The chain closed 48 stores in 2024, QSR reported in its annual ranking of limited-service restaurant companies, bringing the total number to 3,365 at the end of last year.

Sales at Arby’s fell that year by 6.3 percent, with the closures making up 1.4 percent of the company’s total locations, according to NRN.

An analysis by TheStreet found Arby’s has closed over a dozen restaurants so far in 2025 across eight states.

That includes a Maryland location in Laurel, which The MoCo Show reported to be closed earlier this year. At the time, the outlet noted an Arby's in Beltsville had been closed for months but was still listed on the chain's website. As of Thursday, that location was no longer on the site, but the number of stores listed in Maryland had increased from 39 in March, per The MoCo Show, to 46.

The closures have come in the wake of higher prices, with average fast food menu prices up 39-100 percent in 2024 compared to 2014, Finance Buzz reported, noting Arby’s prices have increased about 55 percent over the decade, during which time inflation was 31 percent.

“Consumers are saying, ‘We’re struggling, or we’re beginning to struggle or we’re thinking more carefully about what we spend,'” Michael Kaufman, a Harvard Business School consultant and lecturer, told TheStreet.

“I don’t know that the ability to maintain the large fleets of traditional casual dining restaurants can continue.”