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- 0:05Speaker 1: Wing Snob restaurant coming to Oglesby. Written by Tom Collins.
- 0:10Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
- 0:13Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. A group of developers seeks to
- 0:18Speaker 1: buy the old Burger King and Oglesby. They hoped to
- 0:20Speaker 1: turn it into a tandem gaming parlor and restaurant operated
- 0:24Speaker 1: as a Wing Snob. Oglesby City Hall received a July
- 0:28Speaker 1: twentieth application for a Class A liquor license. Mayor Jason
- 0:31Speaker 1: Kerran disclosed Monday night that he'd received the application and
- 0:35Speaker 1: got the ok to disclose the potential sale. Kamlash Kumar Patel,
- 0:39Speaker 1: president owner and muhol Kumar Patel, secretary owner, both fielded
- 0:44Speaker 1: calls from Shaw local News network and confirmed their interest
- 0:47Speaker 1: in developing the Burger King as a casual eatery with
- 0:50Speaker 1: video gaming, but both said they were about a month
- 0:54Speaker 1: away from disclosing concrete details about the property and their
- 0:57Speaker 1: plans for development. The application on file contained a few
- 1:02Speaker 1: clues of what is to come. The Patel's disclosed hours
- 1:05Speaker 1: of operation would be ten am to midnight Monday through
- 1:08Speaker 1: Saturday and ten am to ten pm Sunday. Mijokumar Patel
- 1:12Speaker 1: further acknowledged during a brief call that he envisioned wine
- 1:15Speaker 1: and beer service with the possibility of hard alcohol. Wing Snob,
- 1:20Speaker 1: headquartered in Warren, Michigan, was founded in twenty seventeen. According
- 1:24Speaker 1: to the company website, there are one hundred locations in
- 1:27Speaker 1: seventeen states and in Canada, with more than one hundred
- 1:31Speaker 1: more commitments from franchisees. The former Burger King and Oglesby
- 1:35Speaker 1: would give wing snab its first location outside the Chicago suburbs.
- 1:40Speaker 1: According to a review of its store locator, The Oglesby
- 1:43Speaker 1: property is three thousand, one hundred fifty square feet, which
- 1:46Speaker 1: meets wing Snob's flexible parameters for floor space. If the
- 1:50Speaker 1: Patels close the deal, they'll have to move quickly. Wing
- 1:54Speaker 1: Snab's website indicated that franchisees are required to open their
- 1:58Speaker 1: first location within six months of signing the franchise Agreement
- 2:02Speaker 1: and lease agreement.