Metro Diner to open at West Manchester Town Center
The Tampa, Florida-based diner chain plans to open a restaurant at the shopping center.
A Tampa, Florida-based diner chain plans to open a restaurant at West Manchester Town Center.
Metro Diner filed plans with West Manchester Township to occupy a building under construction at the town center, located near the building that holds Buffalo Wild Wings, Firehouse Subs and AT&T.
Metro Diner features many southern food staples, including traditional fried chicken and waffles, featured on both breakfast and lunch menus.
Notable breakfast items for Metro Diner include:
- Huevos Rancheros – your choice of eggs served over fried tortilla shells, with chorizo sausage, black beans, onions and peppers. Topped with melted cheese, salsa, sour cream, jalapenos and green onions.
- Charleston Shrimp and Grits – Two fried grit cakes infused with cheese, red peppers and Andouille sausage. Topped with shrimp, sausage, onions and peppers in a shrimp sauce.
Metro Diner also features some hefty options for lunch as well, including:
- J.C.’s Vortex Burger – a half-pound Angus beef burger topped with lettuce slaw in between two grilled cheese sandwiches serving as the buns.
- The Monte Cristo – a fried sourdough sandwich stuffed with turkey, ham, cheddar and American cheese, topped with powdered sugar.
Evan Chizik, one of the company's operating partners, boasted the restaurant’s use of fresh ingredients and said that “a family of four will come in here and eat for about $50 and bring boxes home.”
This is the second planned location in Pennsylvania, with another restaurant set to open in Bensalem, Bucks County. The chain currently has a total of 18 restaurants open or planned in Florida, North Carolina, Indiana and Pennsylvania.
The West Manchester restaurant is one of a larger plan, with Metro Diner planning to open six locations per year in the Philadelphia-New Jersey-Delaware markets, Chizik said.
Chizik said the York-area location was chosen due to success of other restaurants in the area.
"I'm well aware of the success of restaurants like Texas Road House in York," Chizik said. "I think this is the type of crowd, atmosphere and environment in York that we're looking for."
Metro Diner is expected to open in mid-November "assuming construction and weather cooperates," Chizik said, and it is expected to employ 100-200 workers.
The diner will add another full-service food option to the town center. Other restaurants set to open this year include MOD Pizza, Dickey's Barbecue and Outback Steakhouse, which will move its Springettsbury Township operation to the shopping plaza.
A Fine Wine and Good Spirits store also plans to move to the town center from elsewhere in York County in the coming months. Pinot's Palette, a wine-and-painting venue, is also slated to open.
