New Checkers Stacking Up In Metro Atlanta

Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. is adding even more locations to metro Atlanta. After opening in Lenox Square earlier this year and close to opening another location on Broad Street downtown, another location will open in Peachtree center as well. Taking what most recently had been an "Oriental Express" the new restaurant is scheduled to open in the second week in November. This is yet another "in-line" location for Checkers, widely recognized for their stand alone twin drive thru restaurants. According to a company executive, this is a new strategy in many of Checkers' metropolitan markets. Clearly a cost savings, this new growth plan will make it easier for the restaurant to lease spaces it might not have leased with its past model. Another similar location is scheduled to open in Mall of Georgia's food court sometime in the first quarter of 2010. ToNeTo Atlanta

VaHi Residents Not So Hot For Hudson Grille

Metrotainment's planned VaHi Hudson Grille is stalled for the moment. Set to be part of a four story development at 841 North Highland, Hudson Grille's planned location is not going over so well with area residents. "The Mix 841" would be located on land that is currently home to a parking lot and a Bank of America ATM, so the thought of a multi-level development, bringing substantial additional traffic to an already congested area has area residents up in arms. Having been submitted for approval on multiple occasions, the NPU (Neighborhood Planning Unit) has yet to grant approval, and perhaps never will. Currently Metrotainment has three Hudson Grille locations: Alpharetta, Perimeter and Brookhaven, with a fourth set to open in the coming weeks on Peachtree Street in midtown. ToNeTo Atlanta

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Saskatoon Is Gonna Get Killed In Buckhead!

With an abundance of available real estate in metro Atlanta, a new eatery will soon open in a space with a proven track record of being a poor location for restaurants. Located at the corner of Grandview and Pharr Roads, Saskatoon, a Greenville, S.C. based restaurant serving traditional steak and seafood offerings as well as Elk, Ostrich and Venison, will be the second restaurant in the space this year and forth overall. Most recently the location was the site of Harry Bissett's failed attempt at franchising its successful eatery outside of Athens, the Buckhead location lasted a mere 5 months before closing. Spondivits expanded from their successful East Point and Lake Lanier locations to this exact site years ago but closed less than a year into business. The location at 360 Pharr Road in the lobby level of the Alexan apartments was originally built as Tib's Grill, a concept restaurant from AFC Enterprises Inc., but it never opened as the concept was abandoned. I'm not always right in my restaurant predictions but this seems out of place for the metro area and the current economy and I don't see this being a success. ToNeTo ATLANTA

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