Columbia burger joint reopens subsequent massive kitchen fire

27 April 2022

Chubby’s Burgers and Brewhouse within Blythewood will reopen right after being closed for over per month following a kitchen fire. The particular restaurant, which opened up within February, was forced to near when kitchen equipment captured fire as staff shut for the night on 03 8. The damages towards the restaurant and the kitchen machines added up to more than $30, 000. With new kitchen area equipment installed, the cafe will host a grand reopening on April 30 in 3 p. m. “It’s been a lot. Emotionally, novice the craziest rollercoaster I believe I’ve ever been through due to the fact we have extreme highs plus extreme lows, but we are going to just kind of grateful to become coming out of it, ” Sarant said.

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Sarant told the particular Free Times in 03 that he hoped to have the eating place up and running in a week, yet ultimately it took the particular restaurant a little over a 30 days. In that time, Sarant provides tried serving beer on the Blythewood rodeo and web hosting beer nights at the cafe. “We tried opening the particular bar and while we were wishing that would have been great, this didn’t work out too nicely for us, because we are fortunately a restaurant that has ale, not a bar that has foods so that was actually type of a good sign for us (because) we didn’t want to be the bar, we wanted to become a restaurant, ” Sarant stated.

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Nevertheless , Sarant’s business still discovered some success. At the Blythewood Rodeo, the restaurant sold-out of beer three times within two days, he said. Sarant opened the restaurant within February after success together with his food truck, Chubby’s Hamburgers, which he started in the midst of the particular COVID-19 pandemic. His place had been open for a a bit more than a month before this caught fire.

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“This may have us down now, however, not forever. We’re gonna return stronger than ever, ” proprietor Chris Sarant told the particular Free Times following the open fire.

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