A legendary location in Sweetwater has closed its doors after over 70 years of business. Allen's Family Style Meals announced on July 8th that they are retiring from the chicken business.
When I was a child, my Dad would drive us from Memphis, Tennessee down to Ft. Walton Beach, Florida for our Summer vacation. Either going down or coming back, we'd always stop in Mendenhall, Mississippi where there was the Round Table Restaurant. It was similar to this, but the tables were large round ones with Lazy Susans. On each level was a variety of Southern delicacies. It was so so good! The coolest part was that there was no cashier. You'd simply leave your money in a cigar box by the door. Better times indeed.
I live about an hour South of Mendenhall. There used to be quite a few of those revolving table restaurants in Mississippi. The one in Columbia closed not long ago. But I am pretty sure The Dinner Bell in McComb is still open! Give it a visit when you're passing through.
Another great episode about a legendary place to eat chicken that is retiring now after many years of serving people Thanks Shane and Texas Bucket List.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
I only had the blessing of eating there five or six times or so. It was great each and every time. I had great conversations with a variety of people and had by lunch bought for me out of nowhere by strangers. The last time I ate there last year I paid for a couple that sat with me and were kind enough to have a wonderful conversation with me. I hope that they had the delightful surprise of wondering why a stranger bought their lunch without a word. I had the joy of paying forward my free lunch to them. Miss you all and will always remember Allen's!!
Goodness gracious I was a long time resident of dear old redondo 2 blocks from esplanade . Prior to that palos verdes. A lot of my family from Texas and this was our every Sunday meal. Delicious
I worked in the foodservice industry as a sales rep in the early 90's and had to relocate to Sweetwater. Allen's was one of my customers. It was a throwback to an earlier time. Fantastic fried chicken and sides. It will be missed.
Just my luck. I don't live anywhere near there but when I heard "fried rattlesnake". It was on. Then I had a moment of contemplation. Is this possibly the place that inspired the guy that started Church's Fried Chicken. If someone knows, I'd love to know. Sadly, as of this moment, they closed 8 days ago. 😢
My hometown and knew family well. Sad none of kids wanted to continue the tradition. However we will miss them and hope they enjoy their retirement. I will miss that pea salad and sweet potato salad.
These old school restaurants are closing left and right unfortunately. We need these places so we know home cooking at a reasonable price from a restaurant.
Can you imagine that in Ontario Canada, KFC has secretly just changed the chicken to Halal Chicken...It's awful, I think the Colonel would roll over in his grave!
Damn nab it, this economy is really going downhill. I’ve watched the two features on this place I’ve been really wanting to go down there even though I’m from California but it shows you that this economy. Has been really affecting small businesses I mean it really impacted during the pandemic and it looks like it’s still continuing.
I think that with old mom and pop places like these the issue is due to a reluctance from the children to take the business over as they may want to become a professional or move to a more developed / urban area.. Same thing happens in many countries!
@@czechmate6916 more so than america? Now this place is in Texas correct? The same texas that freed their slaves two and a half years later... but I believe you, they seem nice... im just bs'n around😎
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