Restaurants/Food

Consumer Stories

Long-time South Augusta seafood restaurant to reopen after fire damage

T’s Restaurant has been open in South Augusta since 1952 and closed on Labor Day 2020 due to a fire that caused damage to the inside of the restaurant. (Photo from T’s website) A popular family-owned South Augusta seafood restaurant plans to reopen after being closed for several months due to a fire. Located at 3416 Mike Padgett Highway, T’s Restaurant has been in business for close to 70 years. According to the restaurant’s website, it opened in its current location in 1952 and has been closed since Sept. 7,

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B2B Stories

New chicken concept delayed until mid-August

Slim Chickens serves up a variety of familiar and unique chicken dishes. Slim Chickens originally hoped to open in May and now the launch has been moved to mid-August, while the operating partner continues to seek the best talent in the market to help run the restaurant. Jim Bennett, who is the principal of Peachtree Development and the franchisee of Slim Chickens tells ABD he feels the job market is getting better— thanks to decisions like Wednesdays by Georgia Governor Kemp to end federal pandemic unemployment benefits as of June

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Consumer Stories

Lunch Restaurant Review: Your Pie is good food but not the best for biz

Planning a business lunch? Wondering where to take your client? Our ABD Business Lunch Restaurant Reviews offer honest insights on where you should and should not go for lunch. Reviews are based on our 5-star rating system, with one being poor and five being excellent. Bon Appétit! Your Pie Food Quality: 5 Service: 5 Business: Meeting 3 Value: 4 Average Score: 4.25 of 5 When I first heard the concept of Your Pie, I thought it was genius. I tried it in Athens and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you haven’t been, think Subway

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B2B Stories

How we can help the CSRA hospitality industry in need

The Gary’s Hamburgers in West Augusta is being forced to close weekdays at 3pm for now. (Photo courtesy of Facebook) Editor’s Note: On Tuesday morning the Starbucks Coffee Shop on Washington Road at I-20 CLOSED because there was not enough staff to service guests. They re-opened Wednesday morning after locating workers. On the same day, one of the Gary’s Hamburgers had to close at 3 pm—the stories go on and on.  As part of our weekly strategic alliance with AU’s Hull College of Business, we asked associate professor Marsha Loda

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Consumer Stories

Hawaiian family overcomes disability to share sweet success in the CSRA

The snack packs come in a variety of sweet and spicy flavors, and the prices vary depending on size. (Photo courtesy of Andrea Fanfan) For many young children, life revolves around playing games, going to school, and drinking Capri Sun. But five-year-old PJ Fanfan of Evans is already well on his way to becoming an entrepreneur, despite his autism diagnosis. Fanfan helps his mother, Andrea, run PJ’s Snacky Sack, which sells a variety of Hawaiian-inspired snack food bags at various locations throughout Columbia County. “It’s been great,” says Andrea. “We

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Consumer Stories

Two popular fast-food restaurants going head to head in Martinez

Crews are busy working on the parking lot, landscaping, and electrical work at the 12th location of franchisee Mike Iezzi. (Photo by Neil Gordon) Starting as early as next month, fast food giants and next-door neighbors McDonald’s and Wendy’s will compete for both burger sales and employees in front of the West Town Shopping Center on Washington Road in Martinez. Franchise owner Mike Iezzi will soon open a 12th location on a 1.7-acre lot – the site of the former Auto Gallery- near the busy Davis Road intersection. “We’re hoping

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Consumer Stories

Grocery store chain opens in Daniel Village and helps to relieve hunger in the CSRA

Food Lion made very few changes inside the store. Here’s the new store’s deli/bakery section, which looks about the same as it did when BI-LO was in business. (Photo by Josh Heath) Editor’s Note: We sent Josh Heath back to the Bi-Lo\Food Lion just a few weeks after he wrote the story of the Bi-Lo closing. Here is what we found. There’s a new Food Lion store open at 2803 Wrightsboro Road in the Daniel Village Shopping Center, but it doesn’t resemble other grocery stores in the chain. Instead, it

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Consumer Stories

Church led restaurateur to open business in Augusta

The restaurant is located at one of the busiest intersections of Washington Road at Stevens Creek Road near I-20 and adjacent to the Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. (photo by Neil Gordon) Magda Faltaous has commuted back and forth every Sunday for three years from his home in Columbia, S.C. to attend church on Furys Ferry Road in Columbia County. “If business is good, I may move here,” he says. He is in the middle of about a $100,000 investment in the old Denny’s Restaurant building on Washington Road in between

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