Fatz Cafe’s New Lunch Menu Offers Great Taste At A Great Price

July 20, 2009 - PRLog -- MEDIA CONTACT:
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FATZ CAFE’S NEW LUNCH MENU OFFERS GREAT TASTE AT A GREAT PRICE

Taylors, S.C. – If you’re looking for a lunch spot that offers everything from crispy chicken tenders to piping hot soup and refreshing salads, your local Fatz Cafe may be your next weekday lunch stop. Starting Monday, July 20, the 47-unit Southeastern restaurant chain and home of World Famous Calabash Chicken^® will offer guests a new variety of great-tasting items in the right portions and at the right price.

New to Fatz Cafe’s lunch menu are the delicious Ying Yang Tacos, three flour tortilla shells filled with crisp lettuce, diced tomatoes, black beans and fresh cilantro topped with your choice of Popcorn Shrimp or World Famous Calabash Chicken^® tossed in a sweet and tangy sauce. Also new are the Fried Green Tomato BLT, a tasty twist on an American favorite combining southern classics like Texas toast, Sheri’s southern pimento cheese and fried green tomatoes topped with remoulade sauce and the Knife and Fork Chicken Philly with caramelized onions, peppers, and mushrooms topped with provolone cheese and served on a toasted hoagie garnished with fresh lettuce and tomatoes. Cool and wonderfully refreshing options include the Key West Shrimp Salad, lightly sautéed shrimp, chilled atop a bed of crisp romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, carrots, red onions and cucumbers, tossed in a light olive oil vinaigrette and the made-from-scratch Chicken Salad Pita Pocket with diced tomatoes, fresh lettuce, and Fatz honey mustard dressing.

Fatz Cafe’s Creation Station, a favorite among many, continues to allow guests to create any combination from a list of delicious soups, salads, half sandwiches, and more for $5.99.

“We expect our new lunch offers will resonate highly with our guests",” said Richie Cannon, vice president of operations of Cafe Enterprises, parent company of Fatz Cafe. “Lunch guests can choose from a variety of great-tasting items, served by friendly people, and leave our restaurants feeling they have received true value for their money.”

The new lunch menu, available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., complements Fatz Cafe’s full menu of fresh salads, appetizers, soups, sandwiches and entrees including steak, pork, chicken and seafood.

About Cafe Enterprises:
The first Fatz Cafe opened in a converted fruit shed in Spartanburg, S.C., in November 1988. Cafe Enterprises Inc. was formed to serve as the parent company to the new restaurant and the others that would follow. Headquartered in Taylors, S.C., Cafe Enterprises now owns and operates 47 Fatz Cafe restaurants throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia and employs over 3,600 associates. Fatz Cafe, ranked #52 in the 2007 South Carolina 100^SM list of the state’s largest privately owned companies, has also been named one of the nation’s top 400 restaurant concepts by Restaurants & Institutions magazine for the past seven years, most recently ranking #245. In 2008, Chain Leader magazine included Fatz Cafe in its "Top 50 Chains Under 50 Units." For more information, visit www.fatzcafe.com.

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Serving great American food with a Southern twist at a great value and in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, Fatz Cafe has garnered a strong local reputation and natiional recognition.