{"id":1318,"date":"2010-01-21T00:43:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2011-02-18T00:33:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T05:33:23","slug":"savannahs-all-u-can-eat-buffet-7371-two-notch-road-never-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Savannah's All-U-Can-Eat Buffet, 7371 Two Notch Road: Never Opened"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the unfortunate theme of restaurants that never opened<\/a>, I'm afraid we probably have to add Savannah's<\/i> on Two Notch Road.<\/p>\n

I wrote about this building first when it had stopped being Santa Fe Mexican Restaurant<\/a>, before being which, it had stopped being a Shoney's<\/i>.<\/p>\n

As you can see in that closing, when the Savannah's<\/i> signage initially went up (or when it was actually just a notice under the defunct Santa Fe<\/i> signage), the original promise for Savannah's<\/i> was <\/p>\n

\nGrand Opening May 1 2009\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, May 1 came and went. I believe the signage was adjusted a couple of times with different opening dates promised, then left as you see it here with the hopeful but indefinite <\/p>\n

\nGrand Opening 2009\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously, that didn't happen either.<\/p>\n

Looking in the windows, it appears that a good deal still must be done, with very little sign that work is ongoing (I've certainly never seen any crews working as I drove past). I certainly wish them the best, but I'm afraid that 2009 was just a very bad year to try to open a restaurant.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 21 May 2010<\/b> -- As commenter Ken reports, it looks like this place has given up trying to get ready to open and is now simply for lease:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 18 Feb 2011<\/b> -- Looks like it's to be another Wata Wing<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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On the unfortunate theme of restaurants that never opened, I'm afraid we probably have to add Savannah's on Two Notch Road. I wrote about this building first when it had stopped being Santa Fe Mexican Restaurant, before being which, it had stopped being a Shoney's. As you can see in that closing, when the Savannah's […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[78,3,54],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dentsville","tag-restaurants","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}