{"id":14060,"date":"2019-12-05T19:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=14060"},"modified":"2019-12-05T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:26:43","slug":"searcy-expands-dining-options-with-new-resturants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2019\/12\/05\/searcy-expands-dining-options-with-new-resturants\/","title":{"rendered":"Searcy expands dining options with new resturants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several new restaurants are coming to Searcy in 2020, giving the community more food options and new job opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>According to Buck Layne, president of the Searcy Regional Chamber of Commerce, the restaurants are Slim Chickens, Freddy\u2019s Frozen Custard &amp; Steakburgers, Dairy Queen, and Sumo Japanese Steakhouse &amp; Sushi Bar. <\/p>\n<p>The new businesses will bring more community, jobs and opportunities for people to come together and enjoy a nice meal with one another. Layne said he is thrilled with the upcoming businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased with the new restaurants coming to Searcy,\u201d Layne said. \u201cWe are always pleased when businesses come to town and create job opportunities for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freddy\u2019s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers and Slim Chickens both plan to be located on Beebe-Capps, but the final, specific locations are undetermined as of now.<\/p>\n<p>Many students are very excited about the new variety of restaurants coming right next to Harding\u2019s campus. Junior Sage Smith has been dreaming of the day that Freddy\u2019s comes to Searcy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreddy\u2019s is my favorite burger restaurant, and I am very excited for it,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI\u2019m just waiting for that special day when it\u2019s open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each restaurant brings a new flavor and taste to Searcy. Smith said he believes there\u2019s nothing like the joy of eating a burger from Freddy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you just gotta live a little and have a good burger,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n<p>Cindy Hearnsberger with the office management at Hart Construction is looking forward to what the restaurants can specifically bring to families in Searcy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like them to bring more family orientated restaurants,\u201d Hearnsberger said. \u201cIt would be nice to have restaurants where a family could go and sit down for a meal.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Most of these restaurants are scheduled to be up and ready to go before summer of 2020, and, hopefully, all of them will be open no later than next fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several new restaurants are coming to Searcy in 2020, giving the community more food options and new job opportunities. According to Buck Layne, president of the Searcy Regional Chamber of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15160,"featured_media":14061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14062,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions\/14062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}