What type of new restaurant do we need?
 

Hi,

My wife & I will be moving down shortly and I have 25 years in the restaurant business. I want to explore possibly opening up my own restaurant in the Villages. What type of new restaurant would you like to see open?

Cheers,

Dylan & Erin

Something that serves a variety of good low carb options. Most restaurants in the Villages carb load just about everything. I would gladly pay a premium for some decent low carb food.

Franchise: Red Robin.

Non-franchise: NJ diner.

Welcome and good luck!

kathy

I would love a 99 type restaurant, good price, decent food, no sprouts. Comfort types, steak tips, chicken parm, baked potato, popcorn, chicken etc. Of course it could be difficult as Florida does not know what a steak tip is.

Red Robin sounds good as well.

A good variety with plates between $15-25. Hate paying $40-50 or more per plate.

I’ll second that request. I’ve been on a low carb diet for a little over 3 years and there aren’t a lot of low carb dining-out options. Whether medically necessary or not, I would think a lot of retirees should be cutting back on their carbs.

A sports bar/restaurant is needed

Crab house with simple seafood without all the sauces and crust. Steamed blue crabs, steamed peal and eat shrimp, raw oysters, raw and steamed clams, lobster. Not fancy.

Bolay, ate at one in Gainesville, fantastic healthy. Like Chipotle but healthy. Check it out.

I live up north, near county 42 and we could use a new restaurant. A Cody's was built and opened a few years ago and was very popular but the pandemic shut them down and we hear they are not reopening. Large, free standing building with parking and an outdoor eating area where they had live music. Or a fast food restaurant with a drive through would be appreciated up here, we currently drive or cart down to Culver's and I think a Culver's would do very well up here. The existing restaurants are O'brady's (sports bar/restaurant), Sammy Joe's (small space but good Italian) and Subway. Please consider this location. There is still land available to build your own building or take over Cody's.

Another Metro Diner located somewhere on 466A or 44.

I would love to see someone buy the Cousins Maine Lobster franchise and bring the Lobster truck back. It was always busy.

German. We have Italian, Mexican, sea food, Chinese, steak houses, hamburgers and barbecue. But no German.....where to go for Octoberfest!!!

Greek Diner and a NY style deli

I second that thought and as someone else wrote NJ style diner but I guess that one is covered by "Green Diner."

An upscale establishment like J Alexanders.