For Bahama Breeze it turns out the "Island Getaway" on Long Island has turned into an Island gone-away.

The Caribbean-themed chain restaurant, which boasts "Your Island Getaway Begins Here," closed its location at Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove amid what appears to be an abrupt shuttering this week of more than a dozen locations nationwide.

"We are doing everything we can to place as many impacted team members as possible at nearby Darden brands," Kiara Buckner, a spokesperson for the Orlando, Florida-based Darden Corporation, which operates the Bahama Breeze franchise, said in an email.

"Closing this restaurant is a difficult business decision, and one that we made carefully and thoughtfully, particularly because it impacts our team members and guests," she said.

Darden operates more than 2,100 restaurants, among them Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen and Ruth's Chris Steak House.

Buckner said that, in addition to the Lake Grove location, Darden closed Bahama Breeze restaurants this week in: Daytona Beach, Gainesville, Naples, Oakland Park and Sunrise, Florida; Schaumburg, Illinois; Tyngsborough, Massachusetts; Troy, Michigan; Las Vegas; Paramus, Toms River and Woodbridge, New Jersey; and Memphis, Tennessee.

A check of the Bahama Breeze restaurant locator Friday showed just 29 locations still open and operating in the United States.

Of those, 16 were in Florida, two each in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia and one each in Delaware, Michigan, South Carolina, Washington state and New Jersey.

The New Jersey location is in Cherry Hill.

The Bahama Breeze at Smith Haven Mall had been a fixture for more than a decade, offering a wide variety of Caribbean-themed dishes, among them crab and three cheese dip, conch fritters, skillet-simmered jerk shrimp and Jamaican curry pork chops.