HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Just in time for the holidays, two Beauregard's restaurants will be back in business.

The restaurant at 511 Jordan Lane will Wednesday at 11 a.m. under new ownership, and Beauregard's at 1420 Paramount Drive will reopen at 11 a.m. Friday, said Kevin Harper, the general manager of the Jordan Lane location.

Those two restaurants and another at 975 Airport Road closed last month.

"I'm happy and all the staff (of about 30 Jordan Lane employees) is happy" to be reopening right before Christmas, said Harper.

On the last day of business last month, customers "were literally crying," Harper said. "The next week, we stayed to clean up," and customers who thought Beauregard's was still open were calling and stopping by.

Three unnamed local investors are the new owners, Harper said.

A different site is being sought to replace the Airport Road location.

"We took some items off the menu," Harper said, but the restaurants will continue to serve wings, chicken tenders, burgers and ribs.

Cheryl Neal Martin was the former owner. She and her late husband, Doug Neal, who died two years ago, opened the first Beauregard's on Jordan Lane in 1995.

A Beauregard's restaurant at 1009 N. Memorial Parkway closed in September.