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The Three Dollar Cafe site in Peachtree City, which its owners hope to have up and running by December. Photo/Michael Boylan.

Three Dollar Cafe hopes to open by Dec.

By J. FRANK LYNCH
jflynch@theCitizenNews.com

A Three Dollar Cafe is back in Peachtree City’s future.

At a Sept. 14 meeting, the Peachtree City Council agreed to extend an alcohol license for Three Dollar Cafe to the end of this year, when the owners hope to finally have the restaurant up and running in a new building at Wisdom Point on Ga. Highway 74 North.

The council first approved a pouring license for the franchise in a meeting on March 18, but the city’s alcohol ordinance requires that those who’ve been granted a license open the establishment within six months, which ended Sept. 18.

According to Clyde Cornell, the restaurant’s owner, he and his partners were having problems with the original lease agreement for the building. A sign that had been affixed to the structure several weeks ago has since been covered up, and none of the building’s interior work had been finished.

It looked like the venture might be doomed. But in a letter to the city dated Sept. 7, Cornell reported that his partners had decided to purchase the building outright.

He requested an extension until Dec. 29, which the city council approved. A new license will have to be purchased for 2005 by Dec. 30, the city noted.

City staff said there was no direct budgetary impact on the city. Had the council not approved the request, Cornell would have been required to pay another $4,300 license fee.

Three Dollar Cafe, a popular sports bar with several locations around Metro Atlanta, is well-known for having hundreds of beers in stock from around the world.

Also at the Sept. 14 meeting, the council agreed to spend $14,130 from its contingency fund to purchase laptop computers and software for use during council meetings.

The laptops will eliminate the need for paper copies of city documents and meeting agendas, with an annual savings of materials and labor of $3,904, city staff said. At that rate, the laptop purchase will pay for itself in 3 1/2 years.

Councilwoman Judi-ann Rutherford and City Manager Bernard McMullen had been testing the use of laptops for the past month or so and reported them much easier to use.

According to city policy, the laptops would be replaced every three years when their warranties expired.