Fast Food Update - Dino's

Fast Food Update - Dino's Gyros in Roseville is my favorite fast food in the Twin Cities. (The Black Sea Turkish restaurant on Snelling is better, but not fast at all. Which is just fine).

The City of Roseville wants to redevelop the Snelling/Larpenteur intersection, which would involve tearing down Dino's, which is in a cruddy-looking building that used to be a Clark Sub shop.

The developer is trying to help Dino's move half a block north, to a new building on the site of an old Embers on Snelling.

Here are the disturbing parts of the story:

Under the plan, the Ember's building would be demolished and a bigger Dino's would be constructed with the updated look of the five other outlets, including a drive-through. This could happen in fall, if all goes as planned. If it doesn't, it's back to square one.

"If they can't get the deal done across the street," says David Schomaker, president of Dino's Gyros Franchise Corp., "we're not going anywhere."

There are two jarring notes in this story:

1. There is a possibility the deal could fall through, and my corner of town could be left Dinoless.
2. Not only is there a corporate entity called "Dino's Gyros Franchise Corp.", but its president is named David Schomaker, as opposed to Davidos Shomakapolos.
   Posted by Mitch at May 9, 2003 09:09 AM