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Cape Coral will get its first style of Massive Bufords and Checkerburgers when Checkers opens its long-awaited location on Tuesday, February 13 on Skyline Boulevard, simply off Trafalgar Parkway.
Right here's what we realized after chatting with house owners Jason Setzer and Michael Quinn.
Meet the house owners
In late Could 2023, the women appeared to magically seem in a single day at 1624 Skyline Blvd. That's as a result of they beautiful a lot did.
“It's a modular constructing that is available in two or three items,” Quinn stated. “It's inbuilt a number of days.”
It will likely be the 12th Checkers for Quinn and Setzer, who personal 10 different places in Florida and one in Mississippi, together with Pizza Hut and Moe's franchises. Whereas working for Pizza Hut 15 years in the past, the 2 met, grew to become mates and finally enterprise companions.
“We began with 5 within the Tampa space in 2019,” Quinn stated. “We’re sensible operators. We’ve got a crew that’s there day after day. Infrequently we are going to seem.”
Each will likely be current earlier than, throughout and after the grand opening.
Girls of Cape Coral
Quinn and Setzer discovered this space by means of one in all its builders.
“They introduced us this place,” Quinn stated. “Cape Coral is a metropolis with superb meals. We really feel that this can be a nice alternative to proceed rising right here. “We need to be a part of the neighborhood and the Cape Coral space.”
They have already got greater than 60 workers able to work.
“Our crew has been practising for a few weeks,” Quinn stated. “We’re very excited to be on this market.”
This Checkers will likely be open from 10am to 3am day by day and can have a double drive-thru. Two ordering lanes will merge into one, surrounding the south facet of the constructing.
One other single lane, working on the north facet, is designated for orders positioned upfront by means of the app and meals supply providers like DoorDash.
“There can even be walk-in service,” Quinn stated. “We’ve got a small hallway inside to tidy up.”
Checkers is throughout from Challenger Center College on Skyline Boulevard, between Greenback Basic and The Studying Expertise.
It may be accessed through Skyline or, ideally, from the rear, through SW eight.th Place.
Quinn expects visitors to be “low for the primary few weeks.”
“Then it ought to stabilize,” he stated.
What's on the menu
Checkers differs from different quick meals locations, based on Setzer, as a result of it suits right into a smaller location and the “meals is extra decadent.”
“We’ve got extra elements in our burgers,” he stated.
These burgers (beginning at $1.79 for a cheeseburger) are what the franchise is thought for and what it sells probably the most. They vary from single cheeseburgers, double and triple burgers to melted and grilled burgers, for fried and bacon-based lovers.
The Massive Buford ($6.29), a Setzer's favourite, comes with two giant hand-seasoned burgers topped with American cheese, lettuce, tomato, crimson onion, pickles, ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise on a toasted bun. .
Hen objects embody tenders (beginning at $5.49 for 3), sandwiches ($three.39 and up) and bites ($three.79 for a field of bites and fries).
Combine n' Match offers begin with two objects (checkered burger, chili canine, spicy hen or crispy fish sandwich) for $four.50. Meals with chips and drinks value $three extra.
There are fish sandwiches ($three.29 and up), wings (from $9.19 for 5), scorching canine ($1.79), a BLT ($1.39), mozzarella sticks ($three.59 and up for 4). and fries, from small seasoned for $2.29 to giant loaded. for $5.79.
Sweets embody cheesecake sundaes, milkshakes and cones.
Extra girls on the way in which
Headquartered in Tampa, there are greater than 800 Checkers & Rally's (the businesses merged within the late 1990s) in america and 140 in Florida. The Cape Coral location would be the second within the Charlotte, Lee and Collier county space. The opposite is in Port Charlotte.
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However Quinn and Setzer need to change that.
“Our goal was all the time the Fort Myers space,” Quinn stated. “The perfect can be to have three to 4 within the space within the subsequent three or 4 years. “The local people has been very encouraging.”
Girls, 1624 Skyline Blvd., Cape Coral; open from 10am to 3am day by day beginning Tuesday, February 13; (239) 922-1070; checkersandrallys.olo.com
Robyn George is a meals and gastronomy author for The Fort Myers Information-Press. Ship information to rhgeorge@gannett.com.