Red Robin will close its restaurant at 5582 Spectrum Drive in the Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick on Sunday, May 24, ending a 15-year run that began when the location opened on May 30, 2011. A representative confirmed the closure to The MoCo Show, and gift cards will still be accepted at the nearby Germantown location in Montgomery County.

The Frederick shutdown is part of a wider reset at the burger chain, which in late 2024 said it would close about 70 underperforming locations as part of its North Star plan. The company has said the effort is meant to improve profitability and win customers back into stores, even as it works through a longer slide in performance.

That tension is what makes the closure notable today: Red Robin recently said it logged its strongest customer traffic results in three years during the first quarter of 2026, but same-store sales still fell 0.6% year over year. Traffic through April 19 was down 1.6%, an improvement from the 3.6% drop in the previous quarter, showing that the chain is getting more people through the door without fully turning those visits into higher sales.

For Frederick, the closing also adds another chapter to a local pattern. A Red Robin that once operated at Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg closed in 2014, leaving the Frederick location as one of the chain’s more visible remaining spots in the area. After Sunday, customers looking for the brand will have to go elsewhere, and the company’s next test will be whether the North Star plan can do more than trim costs and actually rebuild steady demand.