EVANSVILLE — Downtown residents and workers are getting a new locally owned restaurant, Spudz-N-Stuff.
Owner Jason Dicken is having the former Dairy Queen in Old Post Office Place enlarged and remodeled for opening in about six weeks, he said.
The site is behind the old Post Office.
The restaurant, which will seat 40, will offer 35 kinds of baked potatoes, including a BBQ pulled pork spud, the Buffalo chicken spud, the steak-n-mushroom spud, taco spud, garden spud and chicken-n-broccoli spud.
The restaurant will also feature pitas and salads.
Dicken also is planning a Spudz-N-Stuff for space at 192 Gardenmile Road in Henderson, Ky., across from Kmart.
He said the Henderson store should be ready for opening in eight to 10 weeks.
Dicken owns and operates a Spudz-N-Stuff at 5225 Pearl Drive, on Evansville’s West Side, and one at 815 S. Green River Road on the East Side.
He opened the West Side store three years ago this June.
The former Dairy Queen, behind the Old Post Office, opened in spring 2004 and is owned and operated by Ted Zirkelbach, a longtime Dairy Queen franchisee.
At the time, he said, he pinned his hopes on success there on his belief the new Old National Bank and Vectren headquarters on the riverfront would bring new business to the Downtown.
Zirkelbach said Tuesday he closed the Downtown restaurant in October, because it wasn’t doing the kind of business he thought it “should have been” doing.
He continues to own and operate the Dairy Queen at 5200 Division St. and the Dairy Queen at 901 W. Franklin St.
He termed the Division Street his “baby,” explaining he started working at the restaurant there almost 31 years ago.
He bought the business in 1989.
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