For Lindsey Fussell, time at Charlie’s Coffee went hand-in-hand with stress, late nights and finals.”Freshman year, I practically lived there. During finals week they stay open 24 hours, and there were a few nights when I literally spent the entire night there,” Fussell said of the formerly fish tank-lined coffee shop. “We were there so much, we actually named some of the fish.”But along with the dozens of Charlie’s finals week regulars, Fussell, mass communication junior, is being forced to find a new late-night study locale. Van Lam, spokesperson for Charlie’s sister company, said the shop at Highland Road and Lee Drive, along with the other location on Coursey Boulevard, closed soon after the end of the fall semester.Lam said there are no plans to reopen the two locations in the future.Charlie’s and Regal Nails are both owned by University alumnus Charlie Ton. While the downtown Charlie’s location is staying open, the other location closed as a means to “refocus our resources,” Lam said.”Our main company is Regal Nails. [Ton] wanted to focus on rebuilding Regal Nails,” Lam said. “[To help] them be a little more profitable in their business.”Lam said Regal Nails has more than 1,000 locations throughout the United States and Canada. “[Ton] is looking to improve the [salon] industry with regards to sanitation,” Lam said of the company’s efforts to “refocus resources” to Regal Nails, manufacturing of nail salon products and designing salons.According to Lam, the company purposely timed the closing of Charlie’s.”We planned to do it at that break so that it wouldn’t disrupt studies for the students,” Lam said. Dek Terrell, economics professor, said it’s unlikely the shop would close for economic reasons — Baton Rouge is only just beginning to see the effects of economic recession.”Nationally, the United States is in a recession, so what you would probably see is less sales at the higher end coffees and more of a move to more moderate priced products,” Terrell said. “[But] things like that are just starting to hit Baton Rouge.”Terrell said it’s unlikely for people to entirely stop drinking coffee for economic reasons.”It depends how bad things are as far as whether people would quit drinking coffee,” Terrell said. “I think they might switch from expensive coffees to … Not as expensive a brand of coffee.”Brad Lawrence, engineering freshman, said he frequented Charlie’s about twice each week.”I went there, and sometimes I’d have people bring me stuff from there,” Lawrence said. “My roommate went there to study a lot, so I would just kind of tag along with him. I don’t understand [why it’s closed].”According to Fussell, all the seats in Charlie’s were sometimes occupied — but that didn’t interfere with her late-night studying.”There were some nights when Charlie’s was busy, and we would go to other coffee shops until ten or eleven and then go to Charlie’s,” Fussell said.—-Contact Lindsey Meaux at [email protected]