OB is buying Fritella's???Dumbfounded said:
We have frequented Fritella's quite a bit lately. Really tasty Italian (thin crust pizza ) at a reasonable cost. Tracy is super friendly and it is my understanding that one of our own TexAgs owners has an interest in the restaurant.
I recommend you try it if you haven't already done so.
trouble said:
Not shocking. They did very little marketing on it and tried to keep "BBQ business hours" (Thurs -Sun) in an area that really needs to be open weekdays for lunch.
That didn't take long.Captn_Ag05 said:
The new All the Kings Men concept is closing.
I wonder how much of their customer base was people who lived in Welborn and Castlegate. They were the closest pizza place for both of those areas by a good bit.EBrazosAg said:
I think all these mom and pop places do well in an out of the way spot with a cheap rent and don't understand the problems associated with a newer, better (way more expensive ) location. What used to work doesn't work when volumes don't go up as much as they hoped when they moved. Seems to be a pattern.
Captn_Ag05 said:
They closed because they were…too close to the bypass
Captn_Ag05 said:
They closed because they were…too close to the bypass
FlyRod said:
This has always been a weird business environment. I bet people never expected The Texan to close. Or Zarapes. Or the Cow Patch, etc.
Enjoy a place while it's here. Change happens.
Pretty sure that people knew it was on its last legs when it was closed four days a week and the owner was a widow in her early 70s.FlyRod said:
This has always been a weird business environment. I bet people never expected The Texan to close.
trouble said:
Piasanos is closing.
LOYAL AG said:trouble said:
Piasanos is closing.
Knew this would happen. There new location had to come with a massive rent footprint due to all the table seating in a segment of the restaurant industry dominated by carry out. The biggest names in the business are Pizza Hut, Papa John's and Dominoes and they don't have a table between them. They were good on Wellborn and had to have been successful since they moved to a bigger space in a more expensive part of town but the one time I went there I knew immediately they would be closing. Just a terrible decision.
I love their pizza, as well. They are very generous on the toppings. Every time I order extra cheese at Pizza Hut, I feel like I'm just paying more for nothing. Paisano's actually gives you extra cheese.Its Not Rocket Surgery said:
Piasanos closing hurts my soul. Best pizza rolls in town by far. I remember how many people freaked out when they closed their original location for the move. I get wanting to grow, but agree with others that the increased rent probably did them in and in hindsight it was a bad move.
City rezoned those properties to commercial a few years ago.RNAggie said:
My question may have gotten got lost amid the unfortunate mass of restaurant closure announcements.
But the row of old houses on G Bush East has had some major activity happening to them for the last week or so. Apparently they are tearing them down. At least one house is gone so far.
Anyone know what the end game is for that area?
oklaunion said:
I'm surprised someone with deep pockets hasn't bought that entire block including the strip center off of Dominick. Years ago, when the city demolished the houses on the north side of that street, CS planned to condemn the south side as well and later flip it for commercial. It didn't go as planned.
trouble said:
Welp, good luck to them. I'm not over the way they treated members during shut downs. Then to move to a much more inconvenient place for many who were visiting.
