Monday, June 12, 2000
Fat Wally needs more space
Third Street business to add location
By Earnest Winston
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — Fat Wally's is about to gain some size.
The owners of the South Third Street eatery said they will open a new restaurant next door in the fall to accommodate their growing number of customers.
“The dining room is filling up three and four days out of a week,” said co-owner Scott Shepherd. “We're going to have another concept next door and we'll have another menu.”
Mr. Shepherd said Fat Wally's seats 40 people and the new restaurant should seat up to 75.
“Right now, we're just in the planning stages for what will actually happen,” Mr. Shepherd said.
Customers will enter both restaurants from the Wally's entrance. The new restaurant will sell only hot foods, while Wally's will continue to sell fresh salads, soups and cold deli sandwiches. Mr. Shepherd said the details of the menu will come a lot later.
“We're going to try to come with a little lower price to appeal to some of the people who are not making the big bucks downtown,” Mr. Shepherd said.
The new restaurant will be at 20 S. Third St., where Councilman Richard Holzberger ran his Christmas Store and More.
“One of the reasons we picked this spot was because next door was empty and we knew we could get an option,” said Mr. Shepherd, who in September opened Fat Wally's with co-owner John Curtis. Together they have 40 years experience in the restaurant business.
Mr. Holzberger, whose store sells Christmas materials, groceries and first-aid supplies, plans to reopen the business this week in its new location at 217 Court St. The new store will be almost twice as large as the former location, with more room for parking.
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