Schlotzsky's dead!

I'm fortunate that here in Podunk Far Eastern WVa that I've got 2 really good family run sub shops within 2 miles of home. A third that does hot home style cookin as well as subs is about 11 miles away. The far one makes subs so large that I only order a half. They have a ton of meat and cheese plus will run it through the garden if you like.

MikeS.

I used to like some of their soups. You could get soup for $1.69 and get as many refill as you wanted (it was self serve). I guess a lot of people did that because one time when I went there were signs saying only one refill on soup. They closed in our town about a year ago but are still open in neighboring town.

Charlie

Several years ago, Schlotzsky's were very good. I do not know what happened. They just closed on Knoxville locations and Hardee's bought it and remodeled it.

At one time their product was very good. I just guess management or product got to them.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Yes, Paul. A decade ago I remember eating in a Schlotzky's in Berkeley just a block outside UC's Sather Gate. It was packed with students and the place was good enough that I didn't realize it was a chain.

But they sure have been different recently. It's been so long since I got near the one here in Green Valley that I didn't realize it had closed a month or so ago. The rumor mill says an independent coffee and pastry purveyor is moving in. I can only hope, but I'm not encouraged by the fact that the "For Lease" sign is still up. We also are getting a CKE outlet, in our case not Hardee's but Carl's Jr., but it's not going into the Schlotzky's location.

This sounds like a poor management problem.
The location by McCarthur Park in downtown San Francisco came and went in a flash in the '90s while another place like it has endured in that spot.

Our Schlotzsky's died a couple of years ago and was replaced by a chain called Backyard Burgers which also went belly up recently. We do have a running joke around here that our town is where "restaurants go to die"

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Originally posted by ces1948

Our Schlotzsky's died a couple of years ago and was replaced by a chain called Backyard Burgers which also went belly up recently. We do have a running joke around here that our town is where "restaurants go to die"

No, that's TJ's part of town.

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Originally posted by ces1948

Our Schlotzsky's died a couple of years ago and was replaced by a chain called Backyard Burgers which also went belly up recently. We do have a running joke around here that our town is where "restaurants go to die"

Too bad about the Backyard going down they have good food but seem to have execution problems...no loss for the Schlotskys..been dyeng for years

Still a schlots here in johnson city but their location is poor. Brand new backyard burgers also. Not to bad when the food is fresh.

Myrtle Beach still has at least one that I saw in my roaming.