Fat Guys Burger Bar

[saintnicster]

Looks like they're expanding the Downtown location, and are looking to open up a spot in BA.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/weekend/foodreview/review-fat-guy-s-burger-bar-to-expand-downtown-restaurant/article_e16a6312-1674-5e80-8e53-593faa7357dd.html

Fat Guy's Burger Bar celebrated its five-year anniversary in the Greenwood District in April and soon will begin an ambitious expansion plan.

"We are going to expand into the space next door," co-owner Mike Meehan said. "We will move the soft drink station to the other wall and add another soft drink station next to it.

"We have plenty of space on the patio, but our inside space is pretty small. This will give us a lot more seating."

That's not all of the expansion on the horizon. Meehan said he plans to add a Fat Guy's in Broken Arrow in the first quarter of 2016.

"We are in the process of acquiring a space, but I can't say where yet until everything is approved," he said.

A second Fat Guy's was opened at 7945 S. Memorial Drive in 2012.

"That was a gamble because we didn't know how well it would go over in south Tulsa," Meehan said. "But it has done really well."

The biggest gamble, he said, was opening the original, which sits just outside the Greenwood Avenue entrance to ONEOK Field.

"We knew the stadium was coming, but there wasn't a lot going on in Greenwood at the time," Meehan said. "This had been a fish market, and we were just walking around here one day and saw a rent sign in the window.

"We made a proposal to the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, and four months later we had the lease. I had one restaurant owner awhile back ask me how in the world we discovered the space before he did."

Meehan said he and chef and co-owner Chris Dodge were happy with their concept of gourmet burgers but weren't sure it would go over with the public.

"The concept of a high-end burger with a custom bun was new," he said. "Now, gourmet burgers are all over town."

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