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re: Parrain's Seafood needs to buy the old Sammy's in P'ville
Posted on 1/21/20 at 7:19 am to LoneStarRanger
Posted on 1/21/20 at 7:19 am to LoneStarRanger
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I think at the end of the day, everyone gets homesick and wants comfort food. And Parrains hits that spot.
Fair enough. I can see that being the case.
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Posted on 1/21/20 at 7:23 am to Amadeo
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estate formerly owned by Robert Penn Warren.
remember all of the hoops sammy's had to jump through to build there? There was a thread about it here a long time ago. All of that effort and it fails anyway?
Posted on 1/21/20 at 7:46 am to LoneStarRanger
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I think at the end of the day, everyone gets homesick and wants comfort food. And Parrains hits that spot.
I can agree with that part of it. I just feel like ppl will put Parrains up with Louisiana Lagniappe or something of the caliber and it doesn't even compare.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 8:37 am to financetiger
Supported
Posted on 1/21/20 at 9:47 am to MorbidTheClown
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All of that effort and it fails anyway?
It is without doubt the strangest business collapse I've ever witnessed.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 9:55 am to Amadeo
yeah, since the p'ville location opened that lot was packed everyday for years. I don't get how it failed.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 10:10 am to monsterballads
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TJ ribs was always packed. just didn't have enough parking there.
Parking had nothing to do with this place closing. If you have a great product, people will find parking.
This location suffered from shitty service and a terrible product that was nowhere near what you got just 5 miles down the road at the other locations.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 10:12 am to 4WHLN
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If you have a great product, people will find parking.
parrain's is a good example of this.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 11:01 am to MorbidTheClown
I enjoy Parrain’s food but man their staff has been awful the last couple of times I’ve been. Last time I walked out before even getting a table because the hostess seemed legitimately retarded.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:41 pm to Sun God
Heard from a reliable source today that Sammy developed a very bad gambling problem, that's why it went OOB.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:43 pm to financetiger
Dude should have bet the house on LSU all season like the rest of us 
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:57 pm to Sun God
That is an issue across the board. Very few places have good service which is why I only sit at the bar now.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 3:59 pm to tduecen
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I only sit at the bar now.
at least you don't have to wait as long for drinks.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 4:23 pm to financetiger
Look for Wayne Stabiler to buy the whole bunch
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:10 pm to MrPappagiorgio
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he parking lot sucked, thats a fact
the food and building layout sucked worse, also a fact
100% agree.
Posted on 1/21/20 at 6:11 pm to 4WHLN
This location suffered from shitty service and a terrible product that was nowhere near what you got just 5 miles down the road at the other locations.
100% agree with this, too. Bad layout + terrible parking + very mediocre product is not a recipe for success.
100% agree with this, too. Bad layout + terrible parking + very mediocre product is not a recipe for success.
Posted on 1/22/20 at 1:04 am to djrunner
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Parrain's and Chimes have the same ownership.
I know, but I say Chimes because of the craft beer options. It seems to be an overlooked factor for restaurants in this area.
This post was edited on 1/22/20 at 1:05 am
Posted on 1/22/20 at 3:27 pm to 4WHLN
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Parking had nothing to do with this place closing. If you have a great product, people will find parking.
the food wasn't terrible at TJ Ribs. the parking lot was full. problem was it didn't have much room in the parking lot. So people would see the parking lot full and go elsewhere to sammys or to walk ons. the parking situation was the main reason why this location closed.
Sure, the service wasn't great and the beers were often slightly above room temperature.
from moran himself:
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“We just didn’t have enough space, so we decided that it was time to close,” says owner Burke Moran, who runs Montana-based Finally Restaurant Group.
Moran says the Prairieville location was opened in May 2017 as a way to offset four months that the Acadian Thruway restaurant was closed last year for renovations.
But operations at the third location never got up and running as well as hoped, Moran says.
“We got completely overwhelmed and we could never get operations under control,” Moran says. “It’s my personal opinion that we tried to do too much in that small space. We had 30 kegs on tap, which takes up a lot of space so our beer was never cold enough.”
A post updated today on TJ Ribs’ website under “locations” notified customers that the restaurant is closed. Moran says many of the Prairieville staff will go to work at the other two restaurants.
“We love the facility, we love the landlord, everything was great,” Moran says. “We just had to make the best decision for us.”
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