2 food places Lakewood needs

[Donald Farris]

Hi,
There are 2 food places that I wish Lakewood had, Tommy's and a Sonic. I have to go to the Heights for a Ripp sandwich from Tommy's and drive clear to Streetsboro, oh wait, there is now a Sonic at 1842 Snow Rd, Parma.

I find both of those places to be near the top in food places.

Please do not misunderstand, I think Lakewood is tops in food options. But, I do go out of my way to visit these other places. What food place would you like to see come to Lakewood? (Let's watch and see how many people say another of one that is already in Lakewood) (OK, we could have 2 Melts!).

[Thealexa Becker]

The last thing that Lakewood needs is another food place.

[Donald Farris]

Hi,
Have you had a Ripp sandwich and a $5 "Pulp Fiction caliber" milkshake from Tommy's?

How about a spicy breakfast burrito at 3:30pm from Sonic?

Maybe your just a homebody, that only likes what she makes.

The last thing Lakewood needs is cannibalism development.

The next thing Lakewood needs is to build the Peninsula so Lakewood kids would have a place to Learn to Sail, like this http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jun/28/learn-to-sail-program-takes-to-the-water-at-club/ . We are so close and yet so far from that amazing Lake.

What do you want to fill the hundred empty storefronts on Detroit and Madison with? Can't we please squeeze in these two more food places?

[David Lay]

The last thing that Lakewood needs is another food place.

...and a chain, at that.

While not exactly in Lakewood, The Diner on Clifton's Breakfast Burrito beats Sonic, every time.

[Thealexa Becker]

Hi,
Have you had a Ripp sandwich and a $5 "Pulp Fiction caliber" milkshake from Tommy's?

How about a spicy breakfast burrito at 3:30pm from Sonic?

Maybe your just a homebody, that only likes what she makes.

The last thing Lakewood needs is cannibalism development.

The next thing Lakewood needs is to build the Peninsula so Lakewood kids would have a place to Learn to Sail, like this http://www.caller.com/news/2011/jun/28/learn-to-sail-program-takes-to-the-water-at-club/ . We are so close and yet so far from that amazing Lake.

What do you want to fill the hundred empty storefronts on Detroit and Madison with? Can't we please squeeze in these two more food places?

The idea of a spicy burrito from a fast food place sounds...well I will be kind and just stick with unappealing.

As far as being a homebody...hardly, but I guess I should be flattered that you assume I know how to cook. I wish I had time to learn but college students are notoriously busy.

I've lived in Lakewood my entire life and yet I have not gotten around to eating at every restaurant in the city. And we eat out a fair amount. That might be a sign that we have too many. We don't need any more. If for no other reason that it will likely cut into the business of the existing ones. Besides, think of how well these chains will be recieved based on how everyone is reacting to McDonalds. I mean where would you even put them? Because it's likely that you would place them somewhere that would annoy people.

I don't know if we have a hundred empty storefronts, that seems a little on the high side, but how about some things that we don't have. Like a women's clothing store. I like Dot's but really, its aimed at high school girls. I can't buy a business outfit from there. Or dress shirts.

Or perhaps a bookstore? Those might be going out of fashion due to the Nook and Kindle, but a small Barnes and Noble wouldn't be so bad to have.

Or we could try to lure those businesses right inside of Cleveland outside of 117th into Lakewood. The vintage clothes store and the toy store. That seems unrealistic, but it's better than another fast food place. At least McDonalds only moved from one location to another, so it's not like it was a new addition.

I've seen lots of other ideas on the Deck too.

[Donald Farris]

Hi,
They do serve a great one, but 2 questions on that:
1) Can I get it whenever I want as opposed to when "the man" says you can eat breakfast food?

2). It's the Diner on the wrong side of the "tracks" so to speak? I'm pretty sure that's in Cleveland, unless the annexation has been completed.

[David Lay]

Hi,
They do serve a great one, but 2 questions on that:
1) Can I get it whenever I want as opposed to when "the man" says you can eat breakfast food?

2). It's the Diner on the wrong side of the "tracks" so to speak? I'm pretty sure that's in Cleveland, unless the annexation has been completed.

1. Until 11am Mon-Fri, 2pm Sat-Sun.

2. No. I noted that in my original post.

[Donald Farris]

Hi,
Ms. Becker, don't lump Sonic in with the likes of McD and others. Next time your near Parma between 2 and 4 stop in for their happy hour drinks. You can get a carload enough slushie drinks (with real fruit) to last you a week for little more than the cost of an unhappy meal.

Don't count the empty storefronts (it will depress you and you might find there are more than 100) but regardless there are plenty for whatever you wish. There even room for the doomed bookstore you and I would love. So, I say do whatever, and not just in some small area that's the easiest to deal with.

My idea to fill those stores is for the City to remove a couple barriers to business. Things like, ease their repressive parking requirements they place on people wanting to start a business. If the City can't fix the parking problem, is it fair to expect a new startup to? How about a 3yr business tax abatement to anyone starting a new business in one of those empty storefronts? Lakewood has so many barriers to a new business, that one gets the feeling your business is in Lakewood despite the City's efforts. For no cost, the Council could remove a few barriers to business and fill those storefronts. But I digress from the topic.

There isn't 1 food place you would like to see added to Lakewood?

[Donald Farris]

Hi,
True you are Mr. Lay. There are many businesses the exist for Lakewood but hang just outside Lakewood's control.

[Danielle Masters]

I love Sonic. When we lived in Arizona it was a family favorite. There aren't too many drive-in's around anymore so perhaps it's nostalgia, now if only I could go to the A&W drive-in my grandma took me to up in Oregon when I was a kid.

[Betsy Voinovich]

Hi,
There are 2 food places that I wish Lakewood had, Tommy's

Tommys!

Chocolate banana shake. Fresh peach shake. BW with no green peppers. Or the seven kinds of spinach pie. Or the broccoli rizzo.

But he's been asked hundreds, probably thousands of times by now; Tommy doesn't want to open another Tommy's. The Root has some food that is like Tommy's but Tommy's also has great burgers and homemade fries, and tremendous roast beef and corned beef sandwiches like a less eclectic restaurant and more of a diner. You can eat very healthy food there, but you don't have to.

The Tommy's could be near the Trader Joe's, which could be near the Half Price Bookstore. See, two chains that would be perfect in Lakewood. (A homegrown bookstore would be great also, but it doesn't seem like anybody has the resources to do that right now.)

Maybe a book store attached to our own version of a Tommy's type restaurant, the way Macs Backs is in Coventry. How about some of that Lakewood Community Development Block Grant money for stuff like this? Someone would have to be proposing it and asking for it. I guess the deadline is soon...

Betsy Voinovich

[J Hrlec]

We need a Medieval Times

http://www.medievaltimes.com/

[sharon kinsella]

Eat-N-Park. Have you ever turned to the last page in their menu? Very interesting. I was a local about town town hostess for some people at a conference I attended, located in Independence. Eat-N-Park was able to accommodate, and the only restaraunt that had menu conversions for gluten free, diabetic, vegatarian and vegan. The only thing I couldn't find was macro-biotic, but then I can't find any of those people either. Oh and they don't use MSG!!!

[Thealexa Becker]

Hi,
Ms. Becker, don't lump Sonic in with the likes of McD and others. Next time your near Parma between 2 and 4 stop in for their happy hour drinks. You can get a carload enough slushie drinks (with real fruit) to last you a week for little more than the cost of an unhappy meal.

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There isn't 1 food place you would like to see added to Lakewood?

We already have a slushie place in Lakewood...Robeks, which is better. And Sonic IS just another chain. I mean, this is "America's drive in", let's not inflate it to some special status far above McDs.

And no, there is not a single food place I would like to see in Lakewood. I'm consistent. I think we have too many already. If I really have a craving for something I will drive/bike/walk to where I want and get it, like I do for all the things I already can't get in Lakewood, like books or clothes.

[Matthew Lee]

OK....I'll bite (no pun intended, although maybe it should be)....

I would love to see a casual/takeout GOOD sushi place here. Nothing too fancy, but something I could get that is a step above the supermarket but not a place I have to sit for three hours to eat.

I would NOT oppose that replacing Detroit Theater!