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Volume 4, Issue 3 • 2/14/13 - 2/27/13
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Highway 93 and College Avenue: The death corner Dustin Bertelsen wrote this
The corner between Old Greenville Highway and College Avenue is three things: It’s where Clemson’s campus ends, where downtown Clemson begins, and where restaurateurs’ dreams go to die. Though the corner hosts a Subway franchise on one part of the corner and TD’s Food and Drink on the other—two of the most popular Clemson eateries-- little else can exist in the area. 199 Old Greenville Way is the deathbed of local business, and has been for years. Since the Fall 2010 semester, three now-extinct businesses have called that location home: Finn’s Grill, Samurai Express, and Sweet Grass Diner. Finn’s Grill opened in the summer of 2010. One can imagine restaurant owner Finn Finnerson dreaming of dollar signs and comeons by college girls looking for their big break in the restaurant world. Instead, reality leveled a healthy smack across his face, and the business was closed six months later. Finnerson and his children had an imagination Christmas after his wife left him for the owner of Samurai Express, the restaurant that followed in the cursed footsteps. But, of course, Samurai Express was doomed from the get-go. Though it was one of the best ideas for a restaurant to grace Tigertown, it twopump chumped its way to an early finish. Why it failed is anyone’s guess. One would assume that a delivery Japanese joint would make tons off of a late-night, beer munchies crowd that is too lazy to mosey downtown. It inevitably shut its doors immediately following the fall 2011 semester. The spring 2012 semester saw the rise and demise of the Sweet Grass Diner, which no one really knew about, and with good reason. Sweet Grass was a relatively obscure eatery next to the infinitely more popular TD’s. As a shirt found on morbidly obese 90s rednecks reminds us, “If you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.” Sweet Grass was not the lead dog. Hell, its owner quickly decided to take it behind the woodshed for the big sleep treatment, and it ended up closing its doors during the summer of 2012. Next up, the current proprietors of 666 Hell Avenue 199 Greenville Way: Palmetto’s Smokehouse and Oyster Bar. Thus far, The Palmetto Oyster Bar has marketed itself well to the Clemson students. One can walk by this restaurant and see a BYOB sign, which of course is good, because beer, of course, is good. Want
Career Fair Translations Are you sending the right message to future employers? Or did you show up drunk?
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to succeed? Offer deals to students on certain days- follow TD’s lead with something like Buck Burger Night or the Todaro’s Dollar Slice Night. Keeping late hours on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights will also help. A drunken senior trudging through downtown would love to drop a pretty penny downing some raw oysters on a bet from his equally drunk friends. And since college kids will do anything for money, you can hire an equally desperate student to clean up the
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The Black Sheep 2013 “Baseball” Preview Our writer told us this article is a slam dunk.
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inevitable puke pile. Though we wish The Palmetto Oyster Bar the best in their endeavors, consider The Black Sheep skeptical of potential success. What could the future hold for this next place? We heard there’s already plans to make it a strip club that has indoor laser tag. We’ll let you decide which one of those makes us more aroused.
Bartender of the Week “Famous” Justin Amos from td’s wants Elmo to walk by again.
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