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handyman 12-11-2013 01:10 AM
We were only there 3 ,4 times good food ,prices and and friendly service,much better then can be found at the local "country clubs" in the bubble,I am always sad to see a young business have to close their doors,I will miss cheeseburgers in para
dise and a 1.99Margarita

handyman 12-11-2013 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by gatherer47 (Post 793157)
a quote from my waiter at Lighthouse tonight[a former waiter at O'Shea's] "the owner wouldn't let the manager he hired manage the place"-take it for what it's worth
Sour grapes?

Skip 12-11-2013 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by handyman (Post 793622)
Sour grapes?
Sour grapes make for bad whine!

Skip

BarryRX 12-11-2013 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Skip2MySue (Post 793452)
Barry, Rae, Rae's II morning and afternoon and then Mystic Ice Cream opens in the afternoon to finish off the day!!!!!!!!
Skip 2
Skip, it sounds like a perfect day to me. I hope you're feeling ok!
Barry

uujudy 12-11-2013 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by TicoTexan (Post 793269)
Odd timing for both O'Sheas and Fridays to be closing - just as the "High Season" starts ... Why close when added customers are literally on their way here?
Apparently the entire TGIFriday's company is up for sale: TGI Fridays Chain Put Up for Sale - WSJ.com

rubicon 12-11-2013 01:37 PM
We had not yet been to O'Shea's . However golf cart accessible for any business for me personally means little and in fact if I am going out to eat arriving in a golf cart is not in my nature. golf carts are for golf courses and only champion courses at that. :icon_bored:

jblum315 12-11-2013 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 793831)
We had not yet been to O'Shea's . However golf cart accessible for any business for me personally means little and in fact if I am going out to eat arriving in a golf cart is not in my nature. golf carts are for golf courses and only champion courses at that. :icon_bored:
I agree:gc:

msleute 12-12-2013 06:30 AM
Called O'Shea's, no phone either

Bogie Shooter 12-12-2013 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by msleute (Post 794092)
Called O'Shea's, no phone either
What? You didn't believe any of the other 30 posts.
PS: Welcome to TOTV!

Bonny 12-12-2013 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by msleute (Post 794092)
Called O'Shea's, no phone either
They are closed. Why would you call ?

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.


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