Clyde's Restaurant Group history

Although he never graduated from the university, in 1968 Laytham became the restaurant's general manager.

In 1970, the former boarding house stand-around bar, Old Ebbitt Grill, stood one city block away from the White House.

Clyde's of Columbia, Maryland opened in 1975 and became a fixture of its community.

The 1976 hit song "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band was inspired by the spicy happy hour menu at Clyde's of Georgetown.

In December 1985, Clyde's Restaurant Group purchased from founder Richard J. McCooey three notable D.C. drinking and dining establishments: The Tombs, 1789 Restaurant, and F. Scott's.

In 1987, Davidson and Laytham's next transformation would be internal.

Clyde's founder Stuart Davidson died on August 1, 2001.

When Tower Oaks Lodge in Rockville, Maryland opened in 2002, yet another Clyde's habitat was on display, this time overlooking a 21-acre nature preserve and built inside a 200-year-old, two-story timber barn from Vermont.

Only a year later and thirty miles northwest of Georgetown, Clyde's would open Willow Creek Farm in Broadlands, Virginia in 2006.

According to Laytham in 2012, the company was opening a new location "Every few years".

The Tysons Corner location closed on February 5, 2017, to make way for development of the Tysons Central residential and commercial building project.

Clyde's co-owner and CEO John Laytham died on January 3, 2019.