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Golden Corral Coming to Capital Blvd.

The site plan (.pdf) for a new Golden Corral on Capital Blvd was released by the City of Raleigh today. The plan for another location of GC’s Pavilion-style restaurant calls for 14K feet of space with seating for 469 people. What’s really interesting is that the restaurant will be located on the outbound side of Capital Blvd next to Jeffrey’s Appliance Center , and across from Babies ‘R’ Us.

This is great news for a stretch of the corridor which has seen an increase in blight ever since the dawning of Triangle Town Center. No word on what will become of the Mini City GC location (Millbrook and Capital), though a GC employee mentioned the expected replacement of that structure should the Glenwood Avenue replacement be successful.

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A long-time resident of Raleigh may know differently, but the irony I see in this is the Mayflower Seafood restaurant across the street — which looks like it was originally a Western Sizzlin, Sizzler, or one of those similar low-end steak chains of the 1970s. Golden Corral was orignally another of those low-end steak chains (the “Golden Corral Family Steak House”).
Dana

That’s a great point, CT! It was a Western Sizzlin’ originally. That chain was a rip-off of Golden Corral, BTW, and was never as good. I kind of long for the old days of GC. The 7oz #7 was pretty good, but that tiny bowl of salad was always a big dud.

Sizzler had the most interesting menu, but it was so much more expensive than GC, so we didn’t go much. I miss the Steak & Malibu Chicken. It was pushing $9 while all of the GC stuff was $6.50-$8.00 each.

Anyone remember the Ponderosa and the Red Barn on Wake Forest Road? They weren’t nearly as good as Jack’s, which went in across the street and beat the pants off of those two.
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I personally love Golden Corral and am happily awaiting it’s inception.
ct

Western Sizzlin predates Golden Corral. WS began in Augusta, GA in 1962. Golden Corral started in 1973 in Fayetteville, NC. (That’s what their websites say).

Ponderosa and Bonanza started in the 1960s too. Ryan’s started in the 1970s. Not sure about Quincy’s, but you don’t see many of those now.

Sizzler kicked off the trend of chain, low-end steak restaurants in 1958.
Lew

I for one am glad they are replacing GC on Capital. The strong scent of urine (or is it mold) in the current location really overwhelmed me and other lunch buddies when we walked in.

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Golden Corral Coming to Capital Blvd.

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