Clean Eatz, a restaurant chain with a heavy presence in North and South Carolina, will take over the former Zoe’s Kitchen location on Medical Center Parkway.
The cafe, specializing in natural, lower-calorie offerings, will offer wraps, bowls, fish, salads, smoothies and more. Find Buffalo cauliflower, a variety of protein and fruit-packed smoothies, and turkey, salmon, black bean and bison burgers on the Clean Eatz menu.
In addition to cafe and catering services, the company, launched in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 2011, offers meal plans, a podcast, coaching services and other elements designed to help customers and followers lead a healthy lifestyle.
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Firehouse Subs opened a new location at 2445 Memorial Blvd., the second Firehouse Subs location in Murfreesboro, on Aug. 7.
This makes the sixth Firehouse Subs restaurant franchise for Murfreesboro resident Mark Watson.
Watson discovered the Firehouse Subs brand while on vacation with his family and opened his first store in Smyrna over 10 years ago.
Firehouse chief mural artist Joe Puskas painted a mural for the new location depicting the nearby Walter Hill Dam.
The new location will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, serving hot ham, turkey, beef and cheddar brisket, and other sub varieties.
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The Local Taco will take over the former Dog Haus building on Broad Street.
The Local Taco currently has restaurants in Brentwood and in Huntsville and Florence, Alabama. It will offer $4 tacos, available varieties including Nashville hot chicken, Korean barbecue, shrimp, fish, steak, carnitas and more, as well as salads, quesadillas and guacamole.
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The lot on Lowery Street in Smyrna just across from the Nissan plant, which long held a roadside barbecue smoker, now contains Taco Station.
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A new construction project on Northfield Boulevard next to Marco’s Pizza has posted a sign promoting the upcoming arrival of TJ’s Donuts and Speed Coin Laundry.
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The Peach Cobbler Factory, which operates a food truck and a Nashville store on Nolensville Pike, has opened a Smyrna store at 242 S. Lowry St.
In addition to peach cobbler, the store offers a variety of other cobblers such as caramel apple, blackberry peach, cherry, sweet potato pecan, apple walnut raisin and more, as well as cinnamon rolls, Nutella rolls and banana pudding. A single serving of cobbler with a scoop of ice cream is $7.
The Smyrna store is open from 12–8 p.m. every day.
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A banner hanging above the former Your Burger space on Thompson Lane promotes a new Mediterranean restaurant, coming soon.
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Grandy’s has opened for business on South Church Street near Koji Express.
The restaurant serves fried chicken, roasted chicken, country fried steak and chicken tenders every day, along with green beans, corn, fried okra and more, along with rotating daily specials like pot roast, fried catfish, chicken and dumplings, roasted turkey, sweet potato casserole, cornbread dressing and white beans. Grandy’s is also open for breakfast with bacon and eggs, chicken and waffles and sausage and biscuits. A meat and three is $9.50.
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Huntington Learning Center, a national chain of tutoring centers with locations all over the U.S., has recently opened a Murfreesboro franchise.
Staff at Huntington Centers tutor all ages, from kindergarten students to adults, in study skills, reading, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, math, science and more. The center offers preparation for the SAT, ACT, GED and other exams and for college and aims to help its students master new concepts and succeed in school and life.
According to Huntington, its students make great progress in a short period of time and the center helps its clients raise their SAT score by an average of 248 points and their ACT score by an average of 5.9 points.
The Murfreesboro location is located at 2812 Old Fort Pkwy., Suite K. For more information, call 615-624-9033.
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Tasty Table and Olive Branch Bakery, just featured in the August 2020 edition of the Murfreesboro Pulse, will close to dine-in service. Owners Laura Gossett and Jacqueline Edwards announced that Aug. 29 will be the last day for the restaurant portion of their business.
“We’re still open for business, just not as a restaurant,” Gossett said. “COVID has hurt us. We can’t continue losing money.”
But out of the same building, at 215 N. Church St., the duo will offer “catering and special orders and cakes and desserts and all of the things you need for a great event,” Gossett said.
“We’ll continue to run the building as an event venue,” Edwards said, adding that they can also offer a space for scheduled breakfast meetings and lunch meetings as well as casseroles and personal meal prep for pick-up.
“We are still here and still able to serve you,” Edwards said.
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CLOSING CORNER
Just a couple of months following the opening of a new indoor trampoline attraction across town, Jumpstreet Indoor Trampoline Park has closed its Murfreesboro location.
The closing does not only affect the Murfreesboro Jumpstreet, however. Locations across the country have issued notices that “we have closed our doors until further notice.”
However, the main company website, gotjump.com, stated that Jumpstreet is permanently closed.
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