{"id":10040,"date":"2018-06-13T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10040"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:46:43","slug":"is-fazolis-sizzling-or-fizzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/is-fazolis-sizzling-or-fizzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fazoli&#8217;s sizzling or fizzling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe articles from an industry publication, the fast-casual Italian food franchise Fazoli&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/exclusives\/fazolis-momentum-isnt-close-slowing-down\">is in good shape<\/a> and plans to release &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/exclusives\/fazolis-joins-elite-club-fast-casual\">a completely clean food menu<\/a>&#8221; this summer. (Because chemicals are bad, you see, and unpopular with the youths.) But with that is a restaurant revamp, and I&#8217;m wondering if some franchisees aren&#8217;t able to shoulder the cost.<\/p>\n<p>I say that because the Fazoli&#8217;s on Edgewood Road in Cedar Rapids \u2014 the only one in a 70-mile radius \u2014 closed earlier this month. That means the nearest ones to the Corridor are singles in Dubuque, Moline, Ames, and Ankeny. A Fazoli&#8217;s in Fort Dodge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.messengernews.net\/news\/local-news\/2018\/02\/a-fort-dodge-fixture-since-1995-closes\/\">closed earlier this year<\/a>. One in Waterloo, open less than a decade, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/waterloo-fazolis-closed-july-26\/\">closed five years ago <\/a>(as I said at the time, the location had great visibility but bad access).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s my fault for not patronizing it, but on the other hand, eating them out of breadsticks has its own costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe articles from an industry publication, the fast-casual Italian food franchise Fazoli&#8217;s is in good shape and plans to release &#8220;a completely clean food menu&#8221; this summer. (Because chemicals are bad, you see, and unpopular with the youths.) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/is-fazolis-sizzling-or-fizzling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10041,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions\/10041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}