TAMPA — Tampa-based fast food chain Checkers Drive-In Restaurants will soon be put on the sales block by its private equity owner with a hopeful price tag of near half a billion dollars.

Fast-food chain Checkers is planning to add up to a dozen drive-through restaurants on Long Island over the next five years. Checkers now has 17 franchisee-owned locations on Long Island, ...

Checkers fast-food workers paid $6 or $7 an hour were told they were supposed to train their "new employee," then decide if he was deserving of as much as $100,000 from the Second Chances show.