{"id":421,"date":"2009-05-27T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=421"},"modified":"2010-10-13T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T06:03:50","slug":"steak-out-char-broiled-delivery-780-saint-andrews-road-4-may-2009-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Steak Out Char-Broiled Delivery, 2421 Bush River Road \/ 780 Saint Andrews Road: 4 May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had seen this place on Saint Andrews, and think I saw some of it's flyers, but since I'm not a really big steak fan, I hadn't ever really looked into it. I see that the concept is take out or delivery for steaks instead of pizza, burgers or subs, and that strikes me as pretty odd. First, I have never gotten the appeal of \"take out\". I'd say that's because I work at home, but even when I spent most of my life at the office, I still didn't want to eat at the house. At a restaurant they have people to bring stuff right to your table and you don't have to wash the dishes or take out the trash. Second, steak seems like an odd take-out item. People are very finicky about it and considering how often burger or pizza topping orders go awry, it's a big leap of faith to expect the right cut and the right degree of doneness when you can't send it back.<\/p>\n

I have to say the business strategy being explicated by the door sign seems a bit dubious as well. I want Columbia businesses to succeed and certainly hope<\/i> they will be back, but it's hard to see how several months without any<\/i> money coming in will help to make that happen. (And if they remain part of the Steak Out<\/i> chain, how can they revamp the menu?) It worked for Stevie B's<\/a>, but more often than not any sign using the word remodeling<\/i> is followed by a sign that says For Sale<\/i>.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Kc!)<\/p>\n

Update 24 Jan 2010<\/b>: Well it seems to me that I can move this one from the \"temporary\" category to the \"not coming back\" category. The note from 4 May 2009 promising a \"Fall 2009\" reopening is still posted on the door, but now an un-picked-up phonebook is on the doorstep and un-picked-up mail is on the floor inside, also as far as I can tell no work at all has been done inside -- everything appears to be in an identical state as to when I posted the original closing.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 7 May 2010<\/b> -- This is pretty conclusive, I'm afraid:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 27 May 2010<\/b> -- Now it's up for lease:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 19 July 2010<\/b> -- Finally got around to taking a picture of the original Steak Out<\/i> location at 2421 Bush River Road (now Real Mexico<\/i>):<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 13 Oct 2010<\/b> -- Tony O's Pizza<\/i> is now open in this building:<\/p>\n

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I had seen this place on Saint Andrews, and think I saw some of it's flyers, but since I'm not a really big steak fan, I hadn't ever really looked into it. I see that the concept is take out or delivery for steaks instead of pizza, burgers or subs, and that strikes me as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[210,174,3,177,254],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bush-river-road","tag-i-26","tag-restaurants","tag-saint-andrews-road","tag-steaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}