Thanks for the heads-up about this place. I've been curious about it for months and wanted to take the family there to check it out - but I don't think I'll waste our time or money now.

The only restaurant that we continue to go to, year after year, is Smokey Bones in PTC, because they have GREAT service and good food at reasonable prices. You would think that restaurant management would know that the key to success is GREAT service combined with good food - not too difficult to understand, right??

We go to J.Christophers's for breakfast and lunch also, because the service is fairly good and the food is as well.

Too bad about Pegleg P's.... I was really hoping for an 'island experience', close to home.

Sorry, I had a valid point about restaurants, but I was distracted by that stupid dog with Parkinson's.

Ok, I'm coming back now. Walgreen's is a done deal - Log cabin has been purchased and it is all over. Macaroni Grill is gone because of the Delta problem. Hopefully that will end soon and we will see some TexMex moving into the old MG.
meow

I've been saying for awhile that this is my favorite in PTC. Try the Chili Shrimp but tell 'em you want rice, for some reason it comes w/ fries. I have been trying to git them to put Shrimp & Grits on the menu.

This is a pretty good way to advertise: have people write in and brag. Last time I was there it wouldn't hold 20 people comfortably.

It holds more than 20 people but what if it didn't? The food is good, the prices are reasonable. The Clam Chowder isn't bad either.

So your point is that we shouldn't write about places we like? Give us something you actually like.....enquiring palates want to know.

Good food and a nice variety too.

Oh yeah, big national chains, you can have'em.

I was shocked to see that the Macaroni Grill had closed down. It was always packed with customers, and for the most part, there was always a wait to get in. Does anyone know why it closed down?

Rumor has it and I'm sure McDonough Dawg will check it out and verify for us, that the Macaroni Grill is being tore down to make room for a new CVS Drugstore. Add this to the plans to close the Longhorn down and convert it into a NAPA auto parts store. The good news is that Hobby Lobby is going to move into the Walmart store that is soon to be vacated so that Walmart can build a new Super Center at the intersection of Hwy 74 & TDK Road. As soon as the current lease is up at K-mart I plan on replacing it with an indoor swap shop to draw in tax revenue from Clayton, Fulton, Coweta and Spalding Counties.

Somebody's got to raise revenues to pay for Wastemoreland, Seabaugh & Group VI's bridge.

Who keeps saying that macaroni grill was busy, they always had there backroom closed to make it seem busier than it actually was.

Lets recap the retaurants in PTC

Longhorn: always busy won't be closing and large company

Outback: sometimes on a wait but normally due to its size and poor kitchen and large company will be here for a while

Carrabas: always busy now that mac grill is gone

Chilis: kinda of busy u very small

Smokey bones very big and always kinda of usy

Teds: Gone soon

Taco Mac: A bar not a restaurant

Three dollar: any day now

I've been told Longhorns' numbers are dropping.

Food is dropping yes, but the money is in the bar! Don't make anything anyway on the food.

...Teds is here to stay I go there at least one time a week and they always have people there. The bison is great, the food is great. If they were having a problem why would they spend the money for the outside dining??? The Mac grill is out due to a long term lease the owner of the building wanted, that is the reason they are gone Mac-grill did not want to sign a long term lease....

The restaurant business is unique in that the quantity of customers is many times not the reason for shut-down problems.
Leases was probably the Macaroni problem. One side wanted a reduction in per year rent, the other wanted 10 years lease to do that. Leases for those million dollar buildings cost more than the help does. Ten years in today's Washington is a million years!
The other money matters are that the overhead setup is so much different for a pretentious restaurant, that is, one that tries to appeal to a certain type of people by maybe providing fancy servants and chefs with black ties, and those where your waiter is 19. Also, of course, there are many other ways to show that you want to make certain people feel important. The food in such places quite often is no better than The Village Cafe in Fayetteville!Some people will even pay 2-3 times as much for a meal just to have more room and privacy and more "attention."
Chain restaurants are managed by headquarters basically, and from computer information, and an occasional inspection. How much the banks own and how much the company owns also make a diffence. Local managers have been fired from the results of a week's computer runs from his or her restaurant, or poor liquor inventories.
As to Ted's not going, due to spending money on outide dining, that could mean nothing! They are ripping down the Buckhead Brewery aren't they, after just spending millions!
Today's businees management, in general, in most businesses, is strange and weird.

I've tried a lot of the food on the menu at Taco Mac in the past few months and I think it is a disservice to call it "a bar not a restaurant."

The hickory burger rivals any burger in the county, the Southwest Chicken Wrap is delicious, although it can be a little too spicy and the tacos, especially the chicken tacos, are great. Plus, the desserts are awesome. We had a group of people there one night after a play and everybody ordered one so we could all try a little of each of them - they were great.

Yeah, they have like 300 beers and a full bar - but a "bar" wouldn't have as good a menu as Taco Mac does.

You know, I heard all that stuff too. Isn't that odd?
Did you hear about the new library in PTC and the town hall being torn down and an Indian Casino, McIntosh Indians, along with a 500 room hotel being built there by three local developers? Lindsay is the attorney. Canoes will be allowed by patrons on the lake if they buy enough kickapoo joy juice, first.
Additionally, The mayor, Group VI, and Bob Lenox have combined into Screwummuchum, LLC, and will build a horse racing track where the youth baseball fields are now located in south PTC. As soon as the Georgia legislature and the Governor sign a bill allowing liquor by the drink at Indian casinos and horse racing tracks on Sundays before noon.
The PTC airport will then be expanded into a jet-port, capable of landing Arab 727s. The current golf course, near the airport, will be converted into a horse farm and stud paradise.
Marta (private cars only) will be run from the Horse Farm to Atlanta/Franklin/King/Sharpton/Rice/Powell/Campbell/Maddox International Airport on the existing RR tracks by special license.

I just hope they have real tables, and not those video games they have in Cherokee.

I'll get right on it.

I pity the fool that believes you....

You people have way too much time on your hands! I must admit, though, you are very humorous! Do either of you actually know the real answer to why the Mac Grill closed down? Your ideas were good, but I would prefer it to become an upscale Dollar Store, with enough parking for golf carts, and employees in their tennis outfits. That would go with the personality of Peachtree City!

The same company owned On the Border, and they own Chilis too. I thought both places were always busy, but apparently not busy enough.

I thought that a pawn shop/title loan place was going into the macaroni location.......It works better for the cops to set up stings ..Even the crooks know wally trash mart itsn't the place to hang...

I also was led to believe that a supersized adult book store was going to be put up at TDK and hwy 74 as part of groupVI conserted effort to make us the next river/crimedale?

Have all of the plans changed?

Please tell me that we are not keeping trees in the city....tell me that the plans to clear cut the whole city have not fallen through.

Please tell me that we are not keeping trees in the city....tell me that the plans to clear cut the whole city have not fallen through.

Don't worry... the clear cutting is still on. I hear Logsdon is going to tout an added benefit to the concept of clear cutting. It's going to revolve around public safety issues. No downed trees on powerlines and houses during thunderstorms and no place for the bad guys to hide when our law enforcement guys are running them down.

Trees are a cop's worst enemy. To joke around about criminals hiding in or up them is dangerous and irresponsible. I've been a cop in Peachtree City since 1992 and have seen hundreds of my fellow officers gunned down from the thick. And how can you expect an officer to enforce the law if he's too busy sneezing and rubbing his eyes. Trees are a menance to society, they enable criminal and terrorist activities and ought to be destroyed post-haste.

That explains alot about what is going on in our city.

Sarcasm is sneering, jesting, or mocking a person, situation or thing. It is often used in a humorous or ironic manner.

I hear harold and group of dumb and dumber have their own tree service now. In an effort to make us look like riverdale, they will offer a discount to anyone who cuts down 2 or more trees.

Also it will cut down on the pollen.....that harold....always looking out for us....what a guy! It's just give, give, give, that's his motto.

I was hoping one of his trees would fall on him, and knock some sense into him.

Driving down Hwy. 74 is very depressing. I can't wait to see what the barrier walls are going to look like.

The vision is gone and so are the trees.

I just came back from the Southwest and wonder what / when is it art and when is it graffitti?
Just a thought.

We won't have to deal with those pesky leaves.

Boy,you are ugly, but have a good point.
meow