OT: Walk-On's coming to Starkville?

[17thebears]

Per Twitter, Walk-On's Founder and CEO was in Starkville today "looking at sites" for a future location. Walk-On's would KILL it in Starkville.

Between a Walk-On's and the new Two Brothers, Starkville's restaurant/bar (emphasis on bar) scene would be improved tenfold.

 

[Hugh's Burner Phone]

Anybody know what is going in the old Christy's Hamburgers building? I see it is being renovated, but I haven't seen a sign.

 

[MSUDC11]

Anybody know what is going in the old Christy's Hamburgers building? I see it is being renovated, but I haven't seen a sign.

Pretty sure U-Haul bought that building.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

Mugshots building is still for sale. Would love to see downtown area to make a comeback.

 

[GloryDawg]

All these novitiate restaurants around using metaphors in title like Hooters and Twin Peaks and they are slang for tits. Seem like someone would have come up with one for women where you have men servers. They could serve chicken and call the restaurant Peckers.

Here is one. The best part about fried chicken is the fried skin. Set up a restaurant that serves fried chicken skin with french fries. Hell it could be a food stand. The specialty could be four pieces of skin and fries. You could call the restaurant Four Skin.

 

[dorndawg]

There was briefly a Tallywhacker's in Dallas.

 

[Dawgbite]

My wife and some of her friends had this idea years ago.

All these novitiate restaurants around using metaphors in title like Hooters and Twin Peaks and they are slang for tits. Seem like someone would have come up with one for women where you have men servers. They could serve chicken and call the restaurant Peckers.

Here is one. The best part about fried chicken is the fried skin. Set up a restaurant that serves fried chicken skin with french fries. Hell it could be a food stand. The specialty could be four pieces of skin and fries. You could call the restaurant Four Skin.

Their bar was going to be called 'Bananas and Coconuts"

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

MSU’s academic Schedule makes it tough on Starkville Restaurants...with Ole Miss Academic Calendar, you have a good many students in Oxford 12 months a year...Starkville doesn’t have that...

 

[L4Dawg]

Mugshots building is still for sale. Would love to see downtown area to make a comeback.

Comeback? Because mugshots left? It seemed to be doing fine the last time I was there a couple of weeks ago.

 

[aTotal360]

Buttt itza chane restrunt!11!1!!!

 

[dorndawg]

What are the differences? They were both more or less the same ~10 years ago.

 

[campshelbydog842003]

I was just talking about this in the Hooters thread. I wish they could build one right across the street from bulldog burger in the district but I know they are putting other **** there. This will be my go to for pregame if it happens.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

Yeah, I mean there was never just a ton of stuff downtown, but there used to be more than there is now. Now pretty much all you have down there for night life is Moe's and Hobie's. I guess you can count the guest room but it's certainly for an older crowd.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Yeah, I mean there was never just a ton of stuff downtown, but there used to be more than there is now. Now pretty much all you have down there for night life is Moe's and Hobie's. I guess you can count the guest room but it's certainly for an older crowd.

"...used to be more than there is now."

Funny how perspective change depending on when you were in school. It seems to be doing really well compared to my time there.

 

[Xenomorph]

Your clientele wouldn’t end up being who you expect.. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

 

[stateguy]

Walkons sucks

That is all

 

[RocketDawg]

Yeah, I mean there was never just a ton of stuff downtown, but there used to be more than there is now. Now pretty much all you have down there for night life is Moe's and Hobie's. I guess you can count the guest room but it's certainly for an older crowd.

Things went downhill when Fred's closed ....

 

[RocketDawg]

Probably a lot more OM students fail and have to take the course over in summer school. **

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

All these novitiate restaurants around using metaphors in title like Hooters and Twin Peaks and they are slang for tits. Seem like someone would have come up with one for women where you have men servers. They could serve chicken and call the restaurant Peckers.

Here is one. The best part about fried chicken is the fried skin. Set up a restaurant that serves fried chicken skin with french fries. Hell it could be a food stand. The specialty could be four pieces of skin and fries. You could call the restaurant Four Skin.

In the 80s there was a "Big Peckers Bar and Grill" in Ocean City, Maryland. Their mascot was a Rooster, they sold a ton of T-shirts.

 

[Tall Dawg]

Rocket blasts off for the WIN....!

 

[dorndawg]

This is how you do it, kids.

 

[paindonthurt_]

From 2003 until 2011 ish downtown was like the cotton district is now.
People went out downtown and some people went out in the cotton district.
It’s the opposite now.

 

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

"...used to be more than there is now."

Funny how perspective change depending on when you were in school. It seems to be doing really well compared to my time there.

It's not a perspective, it's just a fact. There used to be 4 bars downtown (Mugshots, Whiskey Blues (or Whatever name you know it as), Old Venice, and State Theater. Now it's just Moe's and Hobies. I'd like to see Downtown get back to the way it was. Like Paindonthurt said, downtown was the place that everyone went from 2003-2011.

 

[rem101]

From 2003 until 2011 ish downtown was like the cotton district is now.
People went out downtown and some people went out in the cotton district.
It’s the opposite now.

The bin used to be the spot to have a drink while waiting on the night route to mugshots/whiskey blues every Thursday-Saturday when I was there 2005-09. Now no one leaves it.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Heh. I once interviewed for a job in the Delmarva area. If I had gotten the position, I'd have strongly considered living in Ocean City though I'd likely want to get away from the place during the summer.

 

[KingCharlesSpaniel]

There is one chain that I actually like that I would love to see in Starkville. Mellow Mushroom. Their pizza, while not the best I have ever had, is better than anything currently available in the Golden Triangle and most of the franchises have a great beer list. I am not sure what the best location would be.

 

[Goat Holding Inc]

There is one chain that I actually like that I would love to see in Starkville. Mellow Mushroom. Their pizza, while not the best I have ever had, is better than anything currently available in the Golden Triangle and most of the franchises have a great beer list. I am not sure what the best location would be.

Starkville is about the only place in central and north Mississippi that is with the times as far as beer goes (maybe Oxford I guess but it's been a while). So yeah, bring Mellow on.

Very disappointed in Jackson's beer scene thus far.

 

[johnson86-1]

What are the differences? They were both more or less the same ~10 years ago.

I think was offers a lot more "intersession" classes. I think during winter break, immediately after the spring semester and immediately before the fall, they have like two week sessions where you basically buy credits. It's a big money grab for the university, where they offer up non-rigorous classes that you can get credit for in two weeks. Think you may only be able to take one class at a time, and I think there's no scholarship money applied to them so it's just people able to pay or willing to borrow to pay full freight for credits, and they mostly are used to lighten the load during the semester, not actually graduate faster, so it's extra revenue for the school for assets that would otherwise be sitting there anyway, and then it also has the benefit of providing a lot of students with lighter class loads in the regular semesters that presumably allows them to go out and spend money more often.

Not sure it impacts the regular summer session, but I bet it keeps more students in town over Christmas break and at the first and last part of summer break.

 

[Bigedawg]

I like Mellow Mushroom but the Chicago style, deep dish Walter Payton pizza at Dave's Dark Horse is probably my favorite pizza on the planet. Dave's has a great menu in general and a good beer selection as well.

 

[msudawg12]

My wife used the intersession courses every opportunity. Her courses werent 'jokes" for what its worth. She usually took something slightly harder that she could focus completely on. I treated summer school at State the same way.

but they do get a lot of students using intersession and I have never understood why MSU doesnt employ it

 

[johnson86-1]

My wife used the intersession courses every opportunity. Her courses werent 'jokes" for what its worth. She usually took something slightly harder that she could focus completely on. I treated summer school at State the same way.

but they do get a lot of students using intersession and I have never understood why MSU doesnt employ it

I think we have one intersession in May. Been a while, but when they were originally rolling it out, professors pushed against it. I believe their argument was that they didn't believe the intersession courses would maintain their academic rigor. Which makes sense to me; I don't think the time is too short to get a full class in if the student is focusing on it. Summer school is 19 days of classroom time, an hour and fifty minutes at a time. Intercession is 15 days, 2 and a half hours at a time. So a significant drop in days (20%) but extending the class room time by 40 minutes each day. I just think the vast majority of students study so little that they aren't really prepared to cover a topic rigorously in that short a period of time or to concentrate for 2.5 hours straight and then come back and study in the afternoon. So I assume that the path of least resistance is to cut back on rigor.

That said, that same argument is probably stronger when you are talking about doing two courses in summer school as opposed to one in intersession (which I think is limited to just one class?), and the few summer school classes I took didn't seem lacking, but it's hard to say since I obviously didn't take those classes during the semester. Maybe they were and they just felt similarly hard because of the way they were crammed in.

But regardless, my friends that took intersession classes at UM did take joke classes and they were essentially using their parents' money to buy them extra time during the semester. But maybe the same classes were jokes during the semester too and there were other classes that were more rigorous that they avoided because they weren't jokes.

 

[GTAdawg]

There is one chain that I actually like that I would love to see in Starkville. Mellow Mushroom. Their pizza, while not the best I have ever had, is better than anything currently available in the Golden Triangle and most of the franchises have a great beer list. I am not sure what the best location would be.

If there is one thing Starkville has plenty of it is good Pizza options. We don’t need a Mellow Mushroom. Lost Pizza serves the purpose that you are explaining.

 

[RPOdawg]

For the love of God can we get a rooftop bar?

 

[paindonthurt_]

Correct. Pregame at the Bin and then head downtown.

 

[The Peeper]

I think Soulshine is much better for beer and pizza.

 

[KingCharlesSpaniel]

If there is one thing Starkville has plenty of it is good Pizza options. We don’t need a Mellow Mushroom. Lost Pizza serves the purpose that you are explaining.

Tastes differ, but to me Lost Pizza is close to inedible. It is expensive and below mediocre. Papa John's is better. I don't know of any pizza in Starkville other than Dave's that I would describe as good.

 

[KingCharlesSpaniel]

I think Soulshine is much better for beer and pizza.

That may well be, but I had not even heard of Soulshine until you mentioned it here. What style of pizza do they do? Neapolitan, Chicago, ... ?

 

[VegasDawg13]

Tastes differ, but to me Lost Pizza is close to inedible. It is expensive and below mediocre. Papa John's is better.

I wouldn't go as far as calling it inedible, but I agree it's not nearly as good as its price would indicate. Either way, though, the only thing it has in common with Mellow Mushroom is the aesthetic. The pizza itself is very different.

I don't know of any pizza in Starkville other than Dave's that I would describe as good.

I loved City Bagel's pizza, but unfortunately I now agree that Dave's stands alone.

 

[Goat Holding Inc]

I wouldn't go as far as calling it inedible, but I agree it's not nearly as good as its price would indicate. Either way, though, the only thing it has in common with Mellow Mushroom is the aesthetic. The pizza itself is very different.



I loved City Bagel's pizza, but unfortunately I now agree that Dave's stands alone.

Dave's calzone....best kept secret in Starkville.

 

[engie]

Did I somehow miss stromboli’s shutting down?