New restaurants & retail in Augusta (Richland, Buena Vista: downtown, Mexican, burritos)

[Airforceguy]

A Culver's restaurant is coming to the Gateway area of Grovetown in the fall. It will be their second location in Georgia. The owners hope to open an two additional locations in the area. Apparently, they are famous for butter burgers and frozen custard...

Culver’s, a restaurant chain based in Wisconsin, featuring butter burgers and frozen custard, will be opening in the Gateway Plaza at Exit 190 of I-20 in Grovetown in the fall. It will be located across from Arby’s and Applebee’s.

Kraig Tabor of East Troy, Wisc., and his son will own and operate the restaurant. They hope to close on the property on Friday and break ground for construction in about four weeks. If all goes as planned, they’ll open the 4,200-square-foot restaurant in October. They expect to hire about 90 employees.
Tabor and his family have frequented Culver’s since the first restaurant opened in Sauk City, Wisc., in 1984. Tabor decided to open the restaurant in Grovetown at the urging of his son, a youth pastor in the Augusta area.

“He’d been after me for about five years,” Tabor said. “I finally decided to make the career change at age 57.”

Tabor said he has no experience in running a restaurant but has 30 years experience in running a business with Snap On Tools. Culver’s, though, has an intensive training process for franchisees that involves a 16-week class, helping open two Culver franchises in other locations and training the staff at another Culver’s.

“It’s pretty significant and specific,” Tabor said. “We’ll have over six months training before we open our restaurant.”

Tabor plans to move several members of his family from Wisconsin to help in the store, including his youngest daughter, who will be one of the managers.

He believes Culver’s products and business philosophy will fit in well in the CSRA.

“Culver’s is family-oriented and the products we sell are very high quality,” he said.

It will be the second Culver’s in Georgia, the first opening in Dawsonville in March. Nationally, Culver’s has nearly 600 locations, about 75 percent of them in the upper Midwest. There are 36 in the Southeast, 24 of them in Florida.

“We’ve done well in the Southeast, especially Florida,” said Paul Pitas, director of public relations and communications for Culver’s. “We started on the west coast of Florida where there were a lot of transplanted Midwesterners and snowbirds.”

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[Eastclevelandguy]

Originally Posted by Airforceguy

A Culver's restaurant is coming to the Gateway area of Grovetown in the fall. It will be their second location in Georgia. The owners hope to open an two additional locations in the area. Apparently, they are famous for butter burgers and frozen custard...

Northern Restaurant Favorite Coming to CSRA | Buzz On Biz

Nice!!!!!!!!!!

[jen516]

Originally Posted by Airforceguy

A Culver's restaurant is coming to the Gateway area of Grovetown in the fall. It will be their second location in Georgia. The owners hope to open an two additional locations in the area. Apparently, they are famous for butter burgers and frozen custard...

Northern Restaurant Favorite Coming to CSRA | Buzz On Biz

We had these when we lived in Michigan. Really good burgers although I am not a huge fan of custard. They also had really good seafood plates.

[Airforceguy]

Tin Lizzy's is opening a BBQ spot on the back of their Washington Road location...
Tin Lizzy’s BBQ Spot Opens | WJBF-TV

[nortonguy]

Lldi is already planning to build another location in the CSRA. The first one is planned for Alexander Drive in West Augusta and second location in North Augusta.

Plans include to open near the city limits of Grovetown near I-20.. 450 Lewinston road across the from Kroger Market under construction.. Looks better than the average strip center.

[cst8670]

Originally Posted by nortonguy

Lldi is already planning to build another location in the CSRA. The first one is planned for Alexander Drive in West Augusta and second location in North Augusta.

Plans include to open near the city limits of Grovetown near I-20.. 450 Lewinston road across the from Kroger Market under construction.. Looks better than the average strip center.

Wait, so Lidl is building one down near Augusta National, one in North Augusta and another near the new Krogers thats opening in Grovetown?

[Carolina Knight]

Originally Posted by cst8670

Wait, so Lidl is building one down near Augusta National, one in North Augusta and another near the new Krogers thats opening in Grovetown?

That is correct.

[PJA]

That road is already congested enough. They need to fast track the widening project. The last time I was out that way around 230 in the afternoon it took me about 30 mins to get from Columbia rd to i20 via Lewiston

[cst8670]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

That is correct.

Wow, I wonder if Aldi will feel pressured to finally expand as well with some new stores in the area.

[nortonguy]

Kroger in Evans will add 5,000 to 10,000 SQ. FT. of new space.