These restaurants are designed to provide fast food and efficient automobile-oriented service incorporating 1950's diner and art deco theme with a highly visible, distinctive and uniform look that is designed to appeal to customers of all ages. Checkers restaurants feature a limited menu of high quality hamburgers, cheeseburgers and bacon cheeseburgers, specially seasoned french fries, hot dogs, and chicken sandwiches as well as related items such as soft drinks and old fashioned premium milk shakes.
All food is made fresh to order and is sold at everyday low prices.
Modular structures provide a uniformly appealing street presence for each Checkers restaurant. Checkers customers can also enjoy a 1950's flashback with walk-up ordering and outdoor dining in the picnic area outside each Checkers location. Checkers has approximately 450 stores across the United States. Ownership is split evenly between company-owned locations and franchisees. These stores are operating in the states of Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington D.C. Checkers is also gaining an international presence with eleven stores in Puerto Rico and one in the West Bank.