{"id":309,"date":"2009-02-01T01:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=309"},"modified":"2019-12-18T23:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T04:13:53","slug":"wendys-saint-andrews-road-late-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Wendy's, 676 Saint Andrews Road: late 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_wendys05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This closing continues a recent series of dead restaurants on Saint Andrews Road.  One of the very first closings I did was of the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8\">Wendy's on Two Notch in Dentsville<\/a>.  If I recall correctly, I said how much I enjoyed Wendy's when they first came to town, and how they gradually seemed to lose their way as many fast food chains have.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know specifically what happened to this store (being on Saint Andrews can't have helped!), but the last two times I have had occasion to stop at a Wendy's (once in Aiken and once on Forest Drive), the service and food have been very indifferent -- not at all like the <i>can-do!<\/i> store that could get you a decent burger the way you wanted it almost by the time you finished being rung up.  I don't doubt the disasterous ad campaign with the guy wearing the red \"Wendy\" pigtails helped more than a few of their stores shuffle off this mortal coil as well.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 8 September 2017<\/b>: Added full street address and some tags.  Also found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopnet.com\/Listing\/19610176\/676-St-Andrews-Road-Columbia-SC\/\">LoopNet<\/a> listing that says the building is still vacant, but has recently had a plan approved to connect to the traffic light and \"would be great for a breakfast restaurant\".<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 13 December 2019<\/b> -- Now <i>Ms B's Southern Soul Food<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/12\/p1600817.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/12\/p1600817_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600817_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600817_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/676+St+Andrews+Rd,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This closing continues a recent series of dead restaurants on Saint Andrews Road. One of the very first closings I did was of the Wendy's on Two Notch in Dentsville. If I recall correctly, I said how much I enjoyed Wendy's when they first came to town, and how they gradually seemed to lose their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2354,152,174,3,177,2353],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-676-saint-andrews-road","tag-hamburgers","tag-i-26","tag-restaurants","tag-saint-andrews-road","tag-wendys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}