{"id":2303,"date":"2008-07-08T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2008-07-08T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T16:29:07","slug":"thinking-about-opening-a-restaurant-in-the-downtown-core-good-spot-with-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/thinking-about-opening-a-restaurant-in-the-downtown-core-good-spot-with-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about opening a restaurant in the Downtown core?  Good spot, with equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just took a walk down the Main Street Mall and noticed that the restaurant at 51 S. Main is now closed and is available for lease.\u00a0 This was the home of a breakfast\/lunch spot whose name I cannot remember.\u00a0 (Renee&#8217;s maybe?)\u00a0 They served burgers and also had a focus on healthy food.\u00a0 Not sure why they didn&#8217;t make it but the place is now closed.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been thinking of opening a restaurant in Downtown Memphis, this might be a good one to check out.\u00a0 Here are the details of the place, as posted on the window:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2000 sq. ft.<\/li>\n<li>Freezer\/Refrigerator<\/li>\n<li>Tables &amp; Chairs<\/li>\n<li>14 ft. hood system<\/li>\n<li>Fryers &amp; Griddle<\/li>\n<li>Charbroiler<\/li>\n<li>Steam Table<\/li>\n<li>Refrigerated display case<\/li>\n<li>Salad and sandwich units<\/li>\n<li>100% turn-key operation<\/li>\n<li>Seats approximately 50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contact phone numbers are 901-531-8497 or 901-409-0975.\u00a0 This would probably work well as a breakfast\/lunch or lunch-only operation.\u00a0 It&#8217;s on the Main Street Mall with lots of office buildings within a 2-block walk.\u00a0 Not sure how well it would work staying open for dinner, since there&#8217;s no parking connected to the business, although I would love to see someone give it a try.\u00a0 It&#8217;s less than half a block away from the Union Avenue trolley stop.\u00a0 If not a restaurant, it would be a great location for a coffee shop, and that might be something that actually work there staying open evenings.<\/p>\n<p>Hope someone grabs this space and does something with it soon.\u00a0\u00a0Downtown employees\u00a0can always use another option for eating out for lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just took a walk down the Main Street Mall and noticed that the restaurant at 51 S. Main is now closed and is available for lease.\u00a0 This was the home of a breakfast\/lunch spot whose name I cannot remember.\u00a0 (Renee&#8217;s maybe?)\u00a0 They served burgers and also had a focus on healthy food.\u00a0 Not sure why &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/thinking-about-opening-a-restaurant-in-the-downtown-core-good-spot-with-equipment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking about opening a restaurant in the Downtown core?  Good spot, with equipment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->