{"id":21303,"date":"2023-01-17T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21303"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:09:47","slug":"smashburger-4601-devine-street-late-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21303","title":{"rendered":"Smashburger, 4601 Devine Street: Late December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Smashburger<\/i> first opened here, I liked it quite a bit. The burger was really good, and there were lots of bun options, including a chipolte bun that was quite tasty. The booths were much more comfortable than 5 Guys<\/i> steel chairs, and the ice-tea, which was also quite good, was attractively dispensed from clear plastic tubes which mimicked old-style hand-pump gas dispensers. The only fly in the ointment, and one that kept me from being a regular is that I didn't like the fries. They were well executed for what they were trying to do, but I didn't care for the idea they were executing.<\/p>\n

So, I would go every now and then, but probably not more than three or so times a year. All that was before the pandemic. When I went back after the pandemic, everything had changed. All of the bun options were gone, and there were no ice-tea dispensers at all in the dining room. In fact when I asked about tea, the staffer looked at me like I was crazy, and apparently went off to brew one cup. There didn't seem to be much traffic there, and a couple of times when I came to eat at the adjacent Moe's<\/i>, I thought the place had already closed.<\/p>\n

In fact, that didn't happen until late december of 2022 as reported in The Post & Courier<\/a>. The reason given there was that the rent was due to triple, but I think the business they were doing had to be a factor as well, or I would have expected Moe's<\/i> to jump ship as well.<\/p>\n

Commenter Larry reports that this spot is to become a Dave's Hot Chicken<\/i>.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Trevin Montgomery)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 27 June 2023<\/b> -- Now Dave's Hot Chicken<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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When Smashburger first opened here, I liked it quite a bit. The burger was really good, and there were lots of bun options, including a chipolte bun that was quite tasty. The booths were much more comfortable than 5 Guys steel chairs, and the ice-tea, which was also quite good, was attractively dispensed from clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3651,111,152,3,3652],"class_list":["post-21303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-4601-devine-street","tag-devine-street","tag-hamburgers","tag-restaurants","tag-smashburger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21303","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=21303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}