Now that the Frankie and Benny’s restaurant has closed on Flowerdown Retail Park. The site will become a Burger King with a drive-thru.
Planning applications posted to the council showed how the site will be converted into a drive-thru and local businesses were consulted on the change.
The restaurant was closed due to the pandemic restrictions put in place in March 2020, and by August with other restaurants now allowed to open, Frankie and Benny’s remain closed.
It never reopened.
I posted last August (2021) that the site was going to become a Burger King.
Now nearly six months later construction work has started on the site with the conversion of the restaurant into a drive thru and burger joint.
I ‘ve never being a great fan of fast food burger joints, so I think the chances of ever eating out there is very slim. If I am going out to eat I like the whole dining experience, queuing for a brown paper bag full of fast food, is not really my thing.
Combine this news with the new Tim Hortons drive thru opening up at the old Pizza Hut, the closure of Prezzo and Pizza Express, the eating out scene in Weston is slowly turning into one of fast food and drive-thru eating.
With all the exciting stuff that happens in Bristol on the food scene, it’s a pity that Weston is going down this fast food road.