Archive for the ‘chicken’ tag
PDQ, 4456 Devine Street: 20 February 2024 1 comment
The Burger King on this site closed in 2011 and was razed to make way for this building. PDQ [People Dedicated to Quality] opened here in 2014, so they lasted about ten years. I'm not a chicken person, but I know my sister and nieces liked it well enough, but perhaps not enough other people did, because the chain has closed 8 restaurants in the Carolinas, which out of 61 total storefronts, is a major hit. I see they have also closed two locations in New Jersey, so they are definitely hurting all over.
Here is the Post & Courier on the Devine Street closing.
Commenter Dave reports rumors that a Whataburger will be coming to the site, but as far as I know, these have not been confirmed.
(Hat tip to commenter Larry)
Bojangles, 4301 Fort Jackson Boulevard: February 2024 (Temporary) no comments
The Bojangles at Cross Hill Market on the corner of Cross Hill Road, Fort Jackson Boulevard & Devine Street has been razed. The restaurant is to be built back with two drive-through lanes and patio seating. You can read about it on WLTX or at The Post & Courier.
There doesn't seem to be a firm date to expect the new building to be in service.
(Hat tip to commenter Midnight Rambler)
Charlie's Wings, 2652 Decker Boulevard: 2021 5 comments
There is some confusion on the street address of this former Taco Bell on Decker. It was apparently previously listed as 2632 (and I have pictures with that address posted in the window), but is now 2652.
Charlie's Wings was the follow-on in this spot to Feel Goods. I'm not exactly sure when they closed. The last post on their Facebook page is from 2019, but they have Yelp reviews into 2021, so I'm going to put that in the post title.
The reason that I noticed Charlie's was gone is that a new operation is now open in the space, a "Korean style Chicken" restaurant: 92 Chicken.
Chick-Fil-A, 5440 Forest Drive: November 2023 (Temporary) no comments
Here's another Chick-Fil-A teardown/rebuild as they continue to pivot to drive-through centric restaurants. This one is in the Wal-Mart plaza at Forest Drive & I-77.
(Hat tip to commenter Larry)
Hook Fish & Chicken Of Columbia, 3600 River Drive: 14 January 2023 (Moved) 1 comment
Hook Fish & Chicken is aparently a chain of sorts, though it's not clear to me that all the locations are closely related. At any rate, they were the follow-on operation in this building at 3600 River Drive to Lamb's Bread. Going by their Facebook page, they moved in January of this year to the row of shops on Colonial Life Boulevard which houses The Melting Pot:
We are more than happy to announce we will be back up and running THIS Saturday, January 14th.
We are coming back stronger than ever with a new partnership with KrabKingz! Come and see us at 1410 colonial life blvd Columbia sc 29210!!
We know you missed us, because we missed you!!!!!!! See y’all Saturday!
I didn't realize when I took the pictures that they had moved, or I would have tried to get some shots of the new location.
Here is The State on the opening in March of 2022.
UPDATE 19 June 2023 -- Here is the Krab Kingz location on Colonial Life:
Wild Wing Cafe, 729 Lady Street: 16 May 2023 7 comments
I guess this isn't too surprising given that the other Wild Wing Cafe locations in the area have already closed (one fairly recently), but combined with the recent Buffalo Wild Wings closing on Two Notch, it makes me wonder if this market segment as a whole is in trouble. I have heard that for restaurants to get wings nowdays it is almost a "market price" situation and a recent google review for this place does comment:
The wings here are TINY. Like half the size of a traditional wing. Maybe smaller honestly. It’s like they killed the chicken just after it hatched.
I can't comment personally about that as since I don't care for chicken I had never visited the place. Still it's always a shame to see a spot close and folks out of work.
Here's today's Facebook announcement, and here is the still extant web site
(Hat tip to commenter Larry)
Drake's Duck-In, 1544 Main Street: March 2023 (Temporary Move) 5 comments
Main Street stalwart Drake's Duck-In has made a temporary move from its Main Street location to 1840 Hampton Street while repairs & renovations are made to its permanent home.
Contrary to the signage when I took these pictures, the actual opening of the temporary site did not take place until 21 April, as reported by The Free Times.
The Hampton Street spot has featured here twice, as Nathan's and Hampton Street Diner.
According to the link commenter Heath found, Drake's has been around in one form or another in various locations since starting on Elmwood in 1907.
So waddle on over...
(Hat tip to commenter Heath)
Wild Wing Cafe, 480 Town Center Place Suite 2: 22 July 2022 2 comments
2011:
August 2022:
To the best of my memory, I've never been in a Wild Wing, even to get a burger, largely because I don't like the smell of chicken.
I did enjoy their radio campaign which leveraged The Troggs "Wild Thing!". The first set of pictures above is from 2011, with night shots presumably taken while I was on the way home from the movie theater. The next set are from this month, and post-closing.
The State has the story, but I'll fancy my pictures have a more complete one.
(Hat tip to commenter Sidney)
Chick-Fil-A, 2600 Decker Boulevard: 24 July 2022 (Moved) 8 comments
While there are certainly still restaurants in this area of Decker, the relocation of this Chick-fil-A is yet another hit to this intersection.
In the past, we have seen the loss of Applegate's Landing, Zorba's, The Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Rush's, Little China, Sonic & Taco Cid.
This store has now moved to a new building at the former location of Atlantic Bedding & Furniture at 7515 Two Notch.
I believe commenter Haley was the first to report the actual closing, though it had been anticipated and discussed in the comments for a while.
(Hat tips to commenter Haley et al).
UPDATE 10 August 2022: Added a picture I missed before.
UPDATE 1 September 2022 -- Here is the new location in operation:
Chick-Fil-A, 294 Harbison Boulevard: 19 May 2022 (Temporary) 12 comments
The Harbison Chick-Fil-A is getting the remodeling treatment that several locations in the area have gone through. In this case, that involves a complete razing of the existing building (already done) and rebuilding on the same lot. The State has the details:
In 2021, the Columbia Planning Commission approved the demolition and reconstruction of the Chick-fil-A at 294 Harbison. Documents filed with the Planning Commission indicated the original 3,844-square-foot restaurant building on the site would be demolished to make way for a 4,345-square-foot building. There also would be a new multi-lane drive-thru on the property, no doubt a key addition at a site where customer car lines can be long in the popular shopping district.
If all goes well, they plan to re-open this fall.
(Hat tip to commenter Sean)