First Watch Opens Clarksville Restaurant

The breakfast and brunch chain opened a location at 3083 Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in a renovated former Shoney's.

Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Openings & Closings

A renovated single-story restaurant building with brick and stucco walls and large windows, set back behind an empty parking lot on a commercial road. — First Watch opened a breakfast and brunch restaurant at 3083 Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville on Sunday, November 1, in a former Shoney's renovated for $1.4 million. AI Illustration. Upload story photo >

First Watch opened a restaurant at 3083 Wilma Rudolph Boulevard in Clarksville on Sunday, November 1. The restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, and lunch and is housed in a former Shoney's Restaurant renovated at a cost of $1.4 million.

Why it matters

The opening adds a national breakfast chain to Clarksville's Wilma Rudolph Boulevard corridor, located just off I-24's Exit 4. It also reuses a previously vacant restaurant building rather than a new construction site.

The renovation of the former Shoney's cost $1.4 million, and First Watch operates more than 660 restaurants nationwide. The extraction does not indicate the number of jobs created or expected revenue at this location.

The players

First Watch

A breakfast, brunch, and lunch restaurant chain operating more than 660 locations nationwide, which opened this Clarksville restaurant.

The details

The restaurant is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. and offers pickup, delivery, and dine-in service. The menu includes enhanced egg sandwiches, A.M. superfoods bowls, cocktails, skillet hash, steak and eggs meals, hot cocoa, and crispy frittatas.

Sunday, November 1, 2026: First Watch opened its Clarksville restaurant on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard.

Market Landscape

The opening places First Watch in the Clarksville breakfast and brunch segment alongside other local dining options. It also reflects the reuse of a former Shoney's building, a pattern in which national chains occupy existing restaurant footprints to lower build-out costs.

Clarksville diners now have a seven-days-a-week breakfast, brunch, and lunch option open until 2:30 p.m. with pickup, delivery, and dine-in available. The menu includes steak and eggs, skillet hash, and crispy frittatas, giving residents a new daytime dining choice.

The takeaway

A new national breakfast option now operates on Clarksville's Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, and the restaurant's hours run daily from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Residents seeking brunch or an early lunch can use pickup, delivery, or dine-in service.