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BCS Coming & Going: Retail, Restaurants, Businesses, etc. (2026 Edition)
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we still don't want to do this here...
i'm too hyped up from the win. no more for me.
edit: Tailgate, that was funny.
i'm too hyped up from the win. no more for me.
edit: Tailgate, that was funny.
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TyHolden said:
we still don't want to do this here...
i'm too hyped up from the win. no more for me.
Train derailed, thread derailed…
Thanks
Boomtown BBQ in College Station simply closed due to being a new business during covid. It also always helps to be a "local" and not an out-of-towner as we were. Good food/bad food, everyone has their opinion. Our Beaumont location was already established during covid, was doing great, and was very successful for 12 years. We moved to College Station to open the new location, and there was no way we were moving back to Beaumont to run that location, so we sold it. The new Beaumont owners were not restaurateurs, thought it would be easy, were not present daily, and it closed within a year.
So happy to have met a "local" like Costa to make something great out of that location. Costa and his crew are killing it over there and we couldn't be more ecstatic for him!!!
And we have absolutely loved living in College Station for the last 7 years, maybe we can even call ourselves "locals" now.
So happy to have met a "local" like Costa to make something great out of that location. Costa and his crew are killing it over there and we couldn't be more ecstatic for him!!!
And we have absolutely loved living in College Station for the last 7 years, maybe we can even call ourselves "locals" now.
The best thing about being from Beaumont is it means you are no longer in Beaumont.
dr_boogs said:
It can get crowded in there but their butchers are fantastic. Maybe just had a random bad communication w one of their counter service guys.
They have a delicious mufellata at lunch.
Their wildlife smoked sausage is exceptional. We have pork/duck and pork/venison made every year and everyone I serve it to asks for more and asks where I had it made.
Fingers crossed they stay open and the new ownership is able to maintain the same quality, family atmosphere and excellent service.
Thanks for the update y'all.
You want some duck sausage?
ElephantRider said:dr_boogs said:
It can get crowded in there but their butchers are fantastic. Maybe just had a random bad communication w one of their counter service guys.
They have a delicious mufellata at lunch.
Their wildlife smoked sausage is exceptional. We have pork/duck and pork/venison made every year and everyone I serve it to asks for more and asks where I had it made.
Fingers crossed they stay open and the new ownership is able to maintain the same quality, family atmosphere and excellent service.
Thanks for the update y'all.
You want some duck sausage?
Still confused by this. I guess you bring your own duck and they add pork? Sounds good but it's been a lot of years since we shot enough ducks to have enough left over to make sausage.
theswanson said:
Boomtown BBQ in College Station simply closed due to being a new business during covid. It also always helps to be a "local" and not an out-of-towner as we were. Good food/bad food, everyone has their opinion. Our Beaumont location was already established during covid, was doing great, and was very successful for 12 years. We moved to College Station to open the new location, and there was no way we were moving back to Beaumont to run that location, so we sold it. The new Beaumont owners were not restaurateurs, thought it would be easy, were not present daily, and it closed within a year.
So happy to have met a "local" like Costa to make something great out of that location. Costa and his crew are killing it over there and we couldn't be more ecstatic for him!!!
And we have absolutely loved living in College Station for the last 7 years, maybe we can even call ourselves "locals" now.
I too am happy to have met Chris and his wife Emily. They were very kind and gracious people. My wife is originally from Beaumont, so there's that lol.
Sometimes things just don't work out and there's not necessarily a straightforward, easy explanation. We too, like so many others, hit many complications with our businesses during and after covid. We had to adapt, pivot and act very strategically to sustain.
We really thought Sofly would do well in that location, given its popularity as a ghost kitchen, but it never hit the metrics needed for it to pencil. We learned yet another valuable lesson with our checkbook and consequently created the Mojo Tortilla Co brand through much more effort, research and dare I say pragmatic thinking.
I've seen very, very strong brands open in new markets and not make it over and over. That issue is not exclusive to Boomtown, Sofly and many, many others. Like I said, sometimes things just don't work out.
One thing is clear; the location is not "cursed" or "doomed" like to many like to label it. Many locations just need the right concept launched the right way at the right time. It's really easy for people to explain off closings by saying the location is doomed.
Could anything work in the former Salad and Go location?
I would see that location as cursed just from the access issues. People are lazy. They don't want to have to cut thru Arby's or a hotel parking lot to reach a restaurant.
Could you see anything making it there?
I would see that location as cursed just from the access issues. People are lazy. They don't want to have to cut thru Arby's or a hotel parking lot to reach a restaurant.
Could you see anything making it there?
There are a couple things I could see working there, yes.
maroon barchetta said:
Could anything work in the former Salad and Go location?
I would see that location as cursed just from the access issues. People are lazy. They don't want to have to cut thru Arby's or a hotel parking lot to reach a restaurant.
Could you see anything making it there?
There were rumors of a Wienerschnitzel there. I know we used to have one not too far away but Waco recently opened a Wienerschnitzel on Valley Mills down the road from one that closed years ago. Footprint looks like it could work.
Costa and Andreas said:
There are a couple things I could see working there, yes.
Kodak
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TyHolden said:Costa and Andreas said:
There are a couple things I could see working there, yes.
Kodak
Fotomat
Watch for Mark Ratner coming by to get $40 of film because he has a crush on the girl that works there.
Things that would work in Salad and Go location:
Coffee place (e.g. 7 Brew)
Fast Stop (burgers)
Wienerschnitzel
Breakfast Taco place
Have to limit the menu, move cars fast, and have a concept folks know and will return to.
Coffee place (e.g. 7 Brew)
Fast Stop (burgers)
Wienerschnitzel
Breakfast Taco place
Have to limit the menu, move cars fast, and have a concept folks know and will return to.
tu ag said:
Things that would work in Salad and Go location:
Coffee place (e.g. 7 Brew). Dutch Bros is a block away
Fast Stop (burgers) McDonald's a block away
Wienerschnitzel maybe
Breakfast Taco place maybe but better be excellent with Mojo a little further south and Fuego a few miles north
Have to limit the menu, move cars fast, and have a concept folks know and will return to.
If college Station was smot, they'd have forced every Asian restaurant into one area and started an Asian town. We got all the shops from Katy area but they're spread out miles apart.
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The left cannot kill the Spirit of Charlie Kirk.
Most McDonald's and high traffic coffee places have one or more competitors close.
Close to other successful competitors wouldn't matter.
Close to other successful competitors wouldn't matter.
Yup. This in fact is a strategy of some fast food places, to open near a McDonald's.tu ag said:
Most McDonald's and high traffic coffee places have one or more competitors close.
Close to other successful competitors wouldn't matter.
The left cannot kill the Spirit of Charlie Kirk.
I've never heard of proximity to a McDonalds as a reason another fast food place wouldn't do well. In fact, putting your fast food near a McDonald's scouted location has proven to be a successful strategy more often than not.
Now compare the access from Texas and Southwest Parkway to the access for the Salad and Go.
TyHolden said:
If college Station was smot, they'd have forced every Asian restaurant into one area and started an Asian town. We got all the shops from Katy area but they're spread out miles apart.
I thought at one time the underutilized Park Place Plaza shopping center (or the Kmart shopping center) would be a good choice for an "Asiantown" strip mall, or maybe the Kmart shopping center.
If/when H Mart shows up we'll probably see something.
tu ag said:
Things that would work in Salad and Go location:
Coffee place (e.g. 7 Brew)
Fast Stop (burgers)
Wienerschnitzel
Breakfast Taco place
Have to limit the menu, move cars fast, and have a concept folks know and will return to.
Archie's 39 cent hamburgers
checkers two way drive thru
tu ag said:
Things that would work in Salad and Go location:
Coffee place (e.g. 7 Brew)
Fast Stop (burgers)
Wienerschnitzel
Breakfast Taco place
Have to limit the menu, move cars fast, and have a concept folks know and will return to.
I think Wienerschnitzel is the only clear winner. 7 Brew might work but I have a feeling that the Bryan location works because there's not a Dutch Bros there. An independent is a much harder sell (just ask House of Rain).
Second one I presume you mean Short Stop; all of the locations are legacy locations, all in Austin (none in the suburban areas, where P. Terry's went out to), the one that closed off I-35 wasn't replaced, and there were/are rumors of a total chain shutdown. I don't think they'll go out to CS anytime soon.
A drive-through breakfast taco place probably wouldn't make it because breakfast tacos tend to be low-margin and you'd have to sell a lot of them or have higher-margin items make up the difference.
Alternatively, you can redevelop it and NailSpa as one lot. Speaking of which, P. Terry's talked about a CS location but nothing seems to have come of it.
Archie's Taco Bell with the backwards drive thru.
-or- hear me out….
Pepe's makes an epic return to College Station!
-or- hear me out….
Pepe's makes an epic return to College Station!
That is the perfect location for Dogs & Such - remember that amazing breakfast taco place, used to be on Tarrow by the Hilton? Damn, they had amazing breakfast tacos.
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Tried to go to The Patty Daddy for lunch today and they had an employee out front saying everything was sold out due to a viral Facebook post.
1. Awesome for them, glad there's massive demand here for "clean" cooking without seed oils
2. Question for our resident restaurant owners…is a viral post like that actually helpful when you're in "soft" opening mode? Or more of a headache?
1. Awesome for them, glad there's massive demand here for "clean" cooking without seed oils
2. Question for our resident restaurant owners…is a viral post like that actually helpful when you're in "soft" opening mode? Or more of a headache?
Detective Jake Peralta said:
Tried to go to The Patty Daddy for lunch today and they had an employee out front saying everything was sold out due to a viral Facebook post.
1. Awesome for them, glad there's massive demand here for "clean" cooking without seed oils
2. Question for our resident restaurant owners…is a viral post like that actually helpful when you're in "soft" opening mode? Or more of a headache?
SAME! We went straight there from church so we arrived at about 1220. Lady out front said to come back in a few hours. (Uh, no...we live in South CS so if we arent going right after church, we probably aren't going that day.)
...but we are looking forward to trying it the next time we're in the vicinity...
I also think CVS and Walgreens have similar strategies to be near one another.
Hornbeck said:
Archie's Taco Bell with the backwards drive thru.
We're not in need of Taco Bell restaurants, though at one time that Taco Bell was (one of) the highest performing restaurants in the chain.
Hearne's Dairy Queen closed earlier this year, apparently. It wasn't Smith Dairy Queen that was the franchisee, though.
reineraggie09 said:
I also think CVS and Walgreens have similar strategies to be near one another.
With all the CVS and Walgreens stores closing down these days I don't think that's true anymore. Half of the Walgreens (3 of the 6) don't have a CVS competing, and CVS has that location at the Rise. And when was the last time either one opened a location locally? 2014?
Local Wienerschnitzel owner wants a CS location where they own the building and land. I don't know what that looks like in light of the current market.
Costa and Andreas said:
We really thought Sofly would do well in that location, given its popularity as a ghost kitchen, but it never hit the metrics needed for it to pencil.
When did "pencil" become a verb?
According to AI, it was first used as a verb in the 1500s.
I've heard it used the way he uses it my whole adult life.
I've heard it used the way he uses it my whole adult life.