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Five Guys, 4751 Forest Drive: 20 January 2013 / April 2023 (Closed Again [Temporary]) 8 comments
I noticed yesterday that Five Guys on Forest Drive in the old Forest Lake Exxon building was closed. I figured maybe they were buffing the floor or fixing some sort of plumbing issue, but they remained closed on Monday and from what I can see (which isn't too much as I couldn't get a close look) there is major work going on in there. The website doesn't offer any additional information other than "closed today", but the fact that it's still listed leaves me to believe they will be back.
It will be interesting to see what they are doing, as the building was completely refitted just a few years ago.
UPDATE 23 January 2013: Added some daylight pictures, though still not very good ones.
UPDATE 31 Jan 2013; Work is complete and the place is open again.
UPDATE 1 May 2023: Interestingly, this is about ten years since my last update to this post. Five Guys is closed again for renovations, and is expected to reopen on 12 May 2023. I'm not sure exactly what needed changing: I've eaten there several times recently, and the place seemed to be in pretty good shape. I guess my least favorite thing is the faux-wood chairs, but obviously that's not the issue here.
(Also updating tags and adding the map icon)
UPDATE 6 June 2023 -- As mentioned, open again:
Forest Lake Exxon, 4751 Forest Drive: 1 March 2008 19 comments
Well, something is going on at Forest Lake Exxon.
I suppose they could just be upgrading the pumps, but then why take down the gas prices from the sign? And usually in an upgrade like that, they try to do it in stages so that there's never a day when they are completely unable to serve customers.
I looked in the window of the convenience store part of the station, and all the food is still in the coolers, and all the tools are still in the car bays, so I'm unsure what's going on. It would be a shame if this place closed as it is one of the last gas stations around which can actually fix anything. I took a slow leak to them a year or so ago, and they had me patched and out of there in under 15 minutes.
I'll check again when I get back in town and see how it turned out.
UPDATE: Commenter Cha Cha says that a "Five Guys" will replace the Exxon.
UPDATE 30 May 2008:
It's official now:
UPDATE 30 June 2008:
They've stripped the Exxon trim from the "patio" roof and have started work inside:
UPDATE 3 Oct 2008 (with pix from 20 Sep 2008):
Still coming along, and looking pretty good.
UPDATE 17 Nov 08:
Well, 5 Guys is now open:
UPDATE 19 December 2017: Add full street address and tags
UPDATE 1 May 2023: Adding map icon.