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Monday, June 4, 2012
Washington Twp. pub to reopen Friday under new owners
WASHINGTON TWP., Montgomery County — The Pour Haus at 536 Miamisburg-Centerville Road closed in mid-May and is undergoing extensive renovations before reopening later this week under new ownership.
Jerry Gordon of Oakwood, who co-owns The Pour Haus with Joe Lakatos of Washington Twp., are shooting for a Friday, June 8 opening. The restaurant-bar has been closed since mid-May after the business partners purchased the business from Phil Hayden, Gordon said. Both Gordon and Lakatos have worked in restaurants since they were teen-agers, including their most recent stints as managers at Doubleday’s.
The renovations include new floors, a rebuilt kitchen area, bathroom improvements and new furniture on the patio and for inside seating, Gordon said.
A new food menu will retain the former Pour Haus’s popular pizza and will add sandwiches, salads, soups and German specialties, including East Dayton Metts and Brats, Gordon said. An expanded beer menu will feature 27 brews on draft and 100 craft beers by the bottle, and the wine and spirits selections also will be expanded, he said.
Hours for The Pour Haus will be 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. “And we will keep the kitchen open until the bar closes,” Gordon said.
In a news release, Lakatos said, “Our main focus during this transition is to take a legendary bar, give it a facelift, open our doors, and welcome the community back inside. We are still dedicated to making The Pour Haus a social gathering place where folks can come in, watch games, eat great food, and have a great time.”
The Pour Haus seats 230 and will employ about 25 people. A grand opening will be scheduled for late June, the new owners said. For more information, call (937) 439-3688.
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Local BBQ chain makes Forbes’ top five ‘hot little restaurant chains’
The local OinkADoodleMoo barbecue chain has been named one of Forbes “Hot Little Restaurant Chains You Can Buy Into Now” list, one of only five small chains in the country to be mentioned.
“It’s very exciting to get a mention from a business powerhouse like Forbes.com,” OinkADoodleMoo founder Mark Peebles said this morning. “We have been working very hard over the past six months preparing for exponential growth, from developing a multi-unit franchise development option, to cutting more than 6 percent off of our food costs and improving systems that are critical to growth. This mention serves as confirmation that we have been moving our business in the right direction.”
Here’s what Forbes contributor Carol Tice had to say about OinkADoodleMoo, while apparently not being able to resist taking a snarky little shot at Ohio barbecue:
Hands-down winner of the prize for restaurant name preschoolers like best, this four-unit chain has been racking up local awards for its Dayton, Ohio-style barbecue (whatever that might be). No disclosure on its website of how much bankroll you need to buy into this, but they are actively soliciting franchisees.
OinkADoodleMoo Smoky BBQ began in fall 2009 with the opening of its first location in Englewood. In 2010, the restaurant chain added a mobile vending unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and a second full restaurant on Far Hills Avenue in Kettering. Late last year, it added a fourth restaurant in Troy.
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Restaurant operators, others vying for former Norton’s space near Fraze, landlord says
The owners of the building that houses the former Pavilion Grille/Norton’s adjacent to Fraze Pavilion say they are “in discussions with several different potential tenants,” including “a couple of restaurant operators,” about leasing the space, according to Amanda Houghton, executive vice president of asset management for Healthcare Trust of America, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based corporation that owns the building at 580 Lincoln Park Boulevard in Kettering.
On May 25, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled against Pavilion Grille owner Fred McGhee’s effort to block Healthcare Trust from seizing the restaurant just weeks before the potentially lucrative Fraze Pavilion concert season starts. At the time, McGhee said, “The sad part is there will be no restaurant for the upcoming Fraze season, which is a shame.”
Healthcare Trust officials did not return calls seeking comment early last week, but on Friday, Lauren Fox Principe, the corporation’s marketing manager, released a statement via email that said, “As the owner of the Lincoln Park building, Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (“HTA”) finds it unfortunate that Pavilion Grille was unable to fulfill its obligations under its lease. HTA recently invested significant capital into general building upgrades and common area renovations. We continue to feel that these assets are in a great location across from The Fraze Pavilion, and we look forward to continuing to build our quality tenant base.”
Principe referred follow-up questions to Houghton, who said, “We do want to put a restaurant tenant in there that will be a good fit,” although she also said the company has received expressions of interest from non-restaurant operators as well as restaurant operators.
She would not specify a timetable for a new tenant’s potential return to the space, but said, “We hope to fill the space as quickly as possible.”
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Owners of Archer’s, Cooper’s Deli to open third eatery
WAYNESVILLE — The Stone House Tavern — a new eatery and pub from the owners of Archer’s Tavern in Centerville and Cooper’s Deli in Oakwood — will open next month at 258 S. Main St. in the village of Waynesville.
“We’re shooting for a July 9 opening date,” said Mike Fullenkamp, who co-owns the three businesses with Dan Apolito and Scott Dorsten.
The Stone House Tavern will employ about 40 people, and will seat about 110, including about 40 on a patio, Fullenkamp said. The menu will be similar to Archer’s menu, he said.
Archer’s opened in June 2010. Cooper’s Deli opened just a month ago. The three owners also are partners in a joint venture with The Dublin Pub to open a new pub in the Austin Landing development near I-75 and Austin Road in southern Montgomery County. That restaurant-pub is projected to open in the fall of 2013.
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