24 February 2022
COLUMBIA — Local restaurant chain Lizard’s Thicket will not reopen the restaurant that closed throughout the pandemic but is trying to add a Lexington County place. The Southern food eating place chain’s location at 402 Beltline Blvd. in Columbia has been closed since Aug, with the company citing staffing requirementws challenges for the move. Employees at that restaurant had been asked to help at various other, busier locations. Now your decision has been made to put the site for sale, Lizard Thicket’s Chief Executive Bobby Williams said.
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In the end, he said this did not make sense to bring employees back to the site. “It’s simply not profitable without a drive-thru, inch Williams said. Lizard’s Thicket drive-thru sales have increased during the COVID pandemic. Drive-thru and carryout sales create about 60% of income, he said, up through about 45% before the outbreak. All but one of his thirteen current restaurants have drive-thrus, Williams said. The Woodland Drive location does not have area to add one and has obtained traffic with the closing from the Beltline Boulevard restaurant, he or she said.
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Ideally, Williams said, another restaurant would certainly take over the chain’s Beltline site, which is fully equipped. There already have been a few interest in the location from audience or renters, he stated, declining name the potential customers. A drive-thru will be a crucial design element in the new eating place the chain is adding within the White Knoll section of Lexington County, Williams said. The newest restaurant site is just away from S. C. 6, close to its junction with Erstaunt Springs Road. That cafe is still being designed therefore an opening there is prone to come in 2023, Williams stated.
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