Editing Burt Reynolds (section)

====Restaurants and dinner theater====
During the late 1970s, Reynolds opened Burt's Place, a nightclub restaurant in the [[CNN Center|Omni International Complex]] in [[Atlanta]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/life/epic-downtown-development-failure-still-remembered-fondly/ZGHVZPCOTNFHDB3P7K3HCT65YA/|title=Epic downtown development failure still remembered fondly|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|last1=Boone|first1=Christian|access-date=February 8, 2023|archive-date=February 8, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208015809/https://www.ajc.com/life/epic-downtown-development-failure-still-remembered-fondly/ZGHVZPCOTNFHDB3P7K3HCT65YA/|url-status=live}}</ref> in the [[Hotel District]] of [[Downtown Atlanta]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pecannelog.com/2010/10/05/the-swing-of-things-at-burts-place/|title=The swing of things at Burt's Place|publisher=Pecannelog.com|date=October 5, 2010|access-date=November 8, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119195907/http://pecannelog.com/2010/10/05/the-swing-of-things-at-burts-place/|archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref> The establishment closed after a year. ("Burt's Place" also was the name of a building that was part of the guest house complex at Reynolds' [[Tequesta, Florida]] estate in [[Palm Beach County, Florida]].)<ref name="Vanity Fair 2016" />

He also owned the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, Florida, with an emphasis on training young performers trying to enter show business.<ref>{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Bob|date=April 22, 1983|title=Burt Reynolds is happy at 48|page=4D|work=[[Messenger-Inquirer]]|location=Owensboro, Kentucky|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23499178/burt_reynolds_is_happy_at_48/|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=September 6, 2018|archive-date=September 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907032313/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/23499178/burt_reynolds_is_happy_at_48/|url-status=live}} {{free access}}</ref> The theater opened in 1979 and was later renamed the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theater. Reynolds operated it until 1989 and leased it until 1996. It had a series of ownership changes until becoming the [[Maltz Jupiter Theatre]] in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=Theatre History|url=https://www.jupitertheatre.org/theatre-history|website=Maltz Jupiter Theatre|access-date=May 8, 2023|archive-date=May 8, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508131850/https://www.jupitertheatre.org/theatre-history|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1984, he opened a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, named Burt & Jacks, which he co-owned with Jack Jackson.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-06-21/features/8702230384_1_burt-reynolds-port-director-clan-reunion|title=Bash At Burt & Jack's Like A Family Reunion|date=June 21, 1987|work=Sun Sentinel|access-date=September 7, 2018|archive-date=September 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907020625/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-06-21/features/8702230384_1_burt-reynolds-port-director-clan-reunion|url-status=dead}}</ref> The restaurant was defunct at the time of his death.<ref name="Florida Today">{{cite web|last1=Sangalang|first1=Jennifer|title=Burt Reynolds and his many ties to Florida|url=https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2018/09/06/burt-reynolds-florida/1215362002/|website=floridatoday.com|publisher=Florida Today|access-date=August 15, 2023|archive-date=August 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815030907/https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2018/09/06/burt-reynolds-florida/1215362002/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Partnering with [[Killen Music Group]] owner [[Buddy Killen]], Reynolds invested in [[Po' Folks (restaurant)|Po' Folks]], a chain of country-cooking, family-style restaurants located in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.<ref name="Florida Today" /> The chain, which was named after a [[Bill Anderson (singer)|Bill Anderson]] song, along with subsequent Killen-Reynolds investment in another Southern restaurant chain, failed.<ref name="Vanity Fair 2016" />