UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): June 15, 2006

Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Commission File Number: 0-19649

Delaware

58-1654960

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

4300 West Cypress Street

Suite 600

Tampa, FL

33607

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip code)

(813) 283-7000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

¨	Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

On June 15, 2006, the Registrant issued a news release entitled “Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. to Go Private – Double Drive Through Chain’s Shareholders Approve Merger with Taxi Holdings”, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

The information contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K and the Exhibit attached hereto shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

The following exhibits are filed with this Form 8-K:


(d) Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press Release, dated June 15, 2006

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


	Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.
	(Registrant)

Date: June 16, 2006	By:	/s/ Brian R. Doster
		Brian R. Doster Vice President, Corporate Counsel and Secretary

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