By Ann Craig-Cinnamon
The number of restaurants in Fishers is going up dramatically in the next few weeks and months. The new Fishers Marketplace, a 104-acre mixed use development at State Road 37 and 131st Street has seven new eateries in some stage of development.
Zaxby’s, a Georgia-based franchise which offers prepared-to-order chicken fingers, jumbo buffalo wings and sandwiches had its grand opening September 8. It’s the first Zaxby’s in Central Indiana and there are plans for five more in Hamilton County.
The company offered a free meal every week for a year for the first 100 people who showed up on opening day. The first person in line, Judy Simpson of Noblesville arrived at 12:55am. She was followed by Marie Marsden who arrived at 1:07 and came from Pike Township. Marsden is from Georgia and says she was a regular customer of Zaxby’s there. “We emailed them when we moved here from Atlanta to ask them when they were going to open. They told us Hamilton County in a couple of years. That was in 2011,” she says. After spending 10 hours in line together Simpson and Marsden say they are now Facebook friends.
Other restaurants coming to Fishers Marketplace include Bagger Dave’s Burger Tavern which opens on Sept. 21, Which Wich Superior Sandwiches is scheduled to open Sept. 29, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is set to open Oct. 5, City Barbeque opens Oct. 11, Graeter’s Ice Cream Shop is scheduled for a November opening, and Aurelio’s Pizza reportedly will open late in the fall.
Elsewhere, Bubba’s 33, a new concept restaurant owned by Texas Roadhouse, opens at 9770 North, by Northeast Blvd. in early November; Brixx wood fired pizza will anchor the new Depot in downtown Fishers by early next year; and Saxony Development is in negotiations with several new restaurants to lease space at Saxony Village in the Lake District.
For those of you who miss the now-closed Cheeseburger in Paradise at 9770 Crosspoint Blvd., you may be pleased to know that its parent company is bringing a Fuddruckers to that location soon.
