

This podcast with Nation’s Restaurant News provide details on the background of that expansion. Fish City Grill is a pet friendly restaurant in Georgetown. “This was an opportunity to now bring that customer not into a Fish City Grill but still get that business with the Sarah’s hot chicken,” Bayne said.īayne said his biggest concern with the virtual brand was taking the eye off the ball of the bread-and-butter brick-and-mortar concept. Service - 10 Prices - 10 Quality - 10 Deliciousness - 10 Decor & Cleanliness - 10 Atmosphere - 10 Eat at Fish City Grill This is one awesome place 0 Votes for helpful, 0 Comments. The menu is available for order through the brand’s website and through DoorDash. Sauces made for dipping the hot chicken include Ranch, Blue Cheese, Hollerback Sauce, Honey Mustard, Chipotle Barbecue, Sriracha Thai Chile and Jalapeño Cilantro.
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Sides include fries ($1.99), creamy coleslaw ($2.99), mac and cheese ($3.99) and a chocolate-chip cookie ($1). The menu is led by Sarah’s Hot Chicken Sandwich, above, at $8.99, a recipe that brines the chicken for 24 hours before cooking, tenders and fries at $8.99 and a version of the Shrimp Po’ Boy at $10.99. The franchise-corporate team decided on Nashville hot chicken, which is popular, and it complemented the menu that has its flag planted in seafood, he said, attracting customers that may have shied away from the fish-based offerings.
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While original discussions centered on extending the seafood brand, Bayne explained, the Lakeland team and corporate decided that might be confusing for the customer.

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The neighborhood seafood joint is in its 25 th year and operators were trying to figure out how to get more sales in the pandemic, he said. a gentleman named Brian Edwards - and Sarah Ceretto, his operating partner and general manager, came up with the idea of doing a virtual kitchen out of their store,” Bayne explained in an interview. Two more locations are scheduled for Mid-2022 in Southern California and Atlantic City, NJ, and three more Hells Kitchen restaurant locations have been. “After COVID hit, our franchisee in Lakeland, Fla. Fish City Grill’s idea for a virtual kitchen rose through a franchisee in Florida and now is expanding to more units of the casual-dining brand.ĭallas-based Fish City, which has 18 units under that brand and two under the Half Shells, is bringing the second Sarah’s Hot Chicken virtual brand online in Plano, Texas, according to Bill Bayne, co-founder and president of the company.
