Shorty Small’s making a comeback in Beebe

Jay Orsi

Managing companion David Rackley is focusing on a September opening for a brand new Shorty Small’s location at 126 N. Principal St. in Beebe.

Searcy’s The Every day Citizen reported in April that the Beebe Metropolis Council unanimously accredited an ordinance for the restaurant to hunt a non-public membership allow from the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Management Division with a view to serve liquor. (Beebe is in dry White County.) Rackley, who grew up in Beebe, advised the Council on the assembly that Shorty Small’s founder, restaurateur Bruce Anderson, developed the idea for the restaurant in Beebe, Every day Citizen reported. Anderson owned Anderson’s Restaurant in Beebe and would later open Cajun’s Wharf in Little Rock earlier than opening Shorty Small’s at 11100 N. Rodney Parham Highway.

The brand new Beebe restaurant would be the firm’s first brick and mortar because it closed the original store on Rodney Parham in 2021 after 40-plus years. All through the many years, Shorty Small’s opened a number of areas, with branches in Scorching Springs; Conway; North Little Rock; Branson, Missouri; Wichita, Kansas and Oklahoma Metropolis. In February 2022, the corporate issued a press launch stating that it was relocating. In June 2022, the long-lasting vintage truck that hovered above Rodney Parham from the restaurant’s parking zone was faraway from its put up. The constructing was later demolished to make means for a 7 Brew Espresso stand.

The brand resurfaced as a food truck in 2023 underneath the title Shorty Small’s Cheese Stick Manufacturing unit. It has primarily been stationed at The Lot meals truck court docket at 601 W. Fourth St. in North Little Rock off North Broadway.

Shorty Small’s proprietor, Paul Kreth, advised the Arkansas Occasions in September that he was trying into brick and mortar alternatives for the model, as properly franchising extra Shorty Small’s meals vans. Actual property agent and Rock Metropolis Eats writer Greg Henderson announced on his Facebook page final week that he’s working with Shorty Small’s to search out “the following technology of franchise location homeowners.”

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