Charleys Cheesesteaks & Wings has signed on to open its eighth Montgomery County location and third in Germantown.
The cheesesteak and wings chain will be taking over the previous home of the standalone Verizon store in the Fox Chapel shopping center (19721 Frederick Rd.). Charley’s recently opened two new Germantown locations at 19877 Century Blvd and inside Walmart at 20910 Frederick Rd, taking over the space formerly occupied by McDonald’s. This Charleys will likely also serve wings and milkshakes, like most new locations in the area.
Charley’s has a new location in Aspen Hill and existing locations in Bethesda (Montgomery Mall), Clarksburg (outlets), Gaithersburg, and Wheaton (Wheaton Mall).
Charleys is a Philly cheesesteak franchise that opened its first location across the campus of Ohio State University in 1986. While studying real estate at the school, Charley Shin worked in his mother’s Japanese/Korean restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. A wrong turn on a family trip to New York City resulted in Charley’s discovery of the Philly cheesesteak. Charley convinced his mother to sell her restaurant, and invest her life savings of $48,000 into Charley’s, a 450-square-foot restaurant across the street from Ohio State’s campus.