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Bogie Shooter 12-12-2013 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Todd's Screen Repairs LLC (Post 794233)
It was originally a 'Sonny's BBQ', then it was 'The Speckled Butterbean'. The Speckled Butterbean was a buffet-style restaurant and it had the BEST breakfast and lunch/dinner buffets!

The food was top quality and had so much food variety. The dinner menu changed - I believe - nightly. IMO, the food was much better than 'Golden Corral'. The waitresses were horrible, though.

We never found out why they closed. We really miss eating there. My guess is that they couldn't hang-on financially until the new Villages homes were built across the road and filled with new homeowners/future patrons.

Seems a shame that 'O'Sheas' couldn't make it either. I think it's a great location and there's really no other restaurants around in that immediate area right now.

I hope something good comes along soon, and actually sticks around.

Ate at Butter Bean many times and never found the waitress's horrible.

travelguy 12-12-2013 06:52 PM

doomed location?
. . .another one bites the dust!
I would have thought that with the arrival of Brownwood and all of the homes that are rapidly being built south of 466A, that a real opportunity would exist for a business at that location. Was service and food so horrible? Those kinds of things can be corrected easily. There still is no decent pizza here.

zcaveman 12-12-2013 08:51 PM

Like it was said before - cart car accessible.

They are just on the outskirts of TV. If a Sonny's could not make it work, I doubt if anyone can.
V
BTW - We went to the Sonny's that was there many times before the one in LSL opened. We tried Speckled Butter Bean but my wife did not like the southern cooked veggies. The chicken was good but there were not very many other meat choices that were palatable to us. We preferred Golden Corral better because of the variety of veggies.

Z

D&Lsunfun 12-16-2013 08:27 PM

the owner should have served decent food, we tried this place 4 times and disappointed each time, the last time the seafood special was very salty, as if the kitchen staff was angry with the waitress. it is a good location, just needs better owners/management. we have seen it before: build it and they will come.

LndLocked 12-16-2013 09:23 PM

Both Speckled Butterbean locations closed (the original one in the Webster Flea Market had been there for many many years) due to a divorce between the owners. Not lack of customers.

O'Sheas was busy until what certainly appears to be bad ownership / management drove (pun intended) people away and killed it.

Neither had anything to do with not being able to drive a golf cart there.

geri317 12-16-2013 09:28 PM

Bet a MacDonalds would work in that location!

DougB 12-16-2013 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by geri317 (Post 796805)
Bet a MacDonalds would work in that location!

Bet a real Irish pup would work well in that location.

ganative 12-16-2013 11:03 PM

We went there a couple of times and price and food were good but the wait time for your order to be taken and then for the food to be served was to long especially considering no more than half the tables were filled. The wait staff was always polite.

Skip 12-17-2013 12:18 PM

Wayne Pelhank (owner) had no experience running a restaurant.

Skip

Trish Crocker 12-17-2013 12:28 PM

We tried it a few times. The first time we talked to the owner and told him how good everything was and that we would be back. The next time was somewhat disappointing. The last time we went I said I would never go back. I'm not at all fussy but ordering a strip steak and getting a flat steak, overcooked, served on a wooden plate with canned vegetables was too much. (If I wanted food like that I could have stayed home :) ) I feel very sorry for the owners and really wish the could have made it.

keithwand 12-17-2013 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Skip (Post 797050)
Wayne Pelhank (owner) had no experience running a restaurant.

Skip

It showed.

Shimpy 12-17-2013 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by geri317 (Post 796805)
Bet a MacDonalds would work in that location!


A MacDonalds would work in Anarticia.

nycowboy98 12-20-2013 10:44 AM

Oshea's will be missed
 
I will miss Sunday's football and Mike the owner and his brothers. The oysters, Bloody Mary's , I wish Mike all the luck in the world and I will track you down wherever you end up bartending. GOOD LUCK TO ALL

Bonny 12-20-2013 11:00 AM

Mikie was the GM. You know if he was the owner, he would not have closed just before Christmas.
Mikie is at Evan's Prairie. Going through management training. He's a great bartender but will make an awesome manager !!
His brother Andy is at Mezza Luna.

tainsley 12-20-2013 11:43 AM

Glad to see Mike and Andy are employed! EP is our favorite it will be nice to see Mike back there!

rn1tv 12-23-2013 05:23 PM

My husband gives a vote for a "Hooters" in the location...go figure...

DougB 12-23-2013 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by rn1tv (Post 800235)
My husband gives a vote for a "Hooters" in the location...go figure...

Your husband has good taste!

buggyone 12-23-2013 06:07 PM

I remember all of the extremely positive comments when O'Shea took over from the Speckled Butter Bean.

Wow, how the tide turns quickly!

O'Shea did not stay even 1 year, did they?

Big turnover in restaurants. I looked at some old postings and saw one for Mr. P's in Leesburg. That place is boarded up completely. Ay Jalisco in Leesburg has been closed for a long time. TGIFriday's at Lake Sumter Landing is closed.

However, the good ones remain such as Cody's, City Fire, Red Sauce, RJ Gators.

I would bet that Luigino's at Spanish Springs goes out of business in the next year.


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