Division I regional track finals
Fenwick graduation 2012
Ponitz graduation 2012
Home > Blogs > Taste: Dayton food and restaurants > Archives > 2010 > December > 01 > Entry
New 350-seat restaurant to open tomorrow in Englewood
ENGLEWOOD — A new barbecue restaurant with a firehouse theme — called Company 7 BBQ — is poised to open at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at 1001 S. Main St., in a former medical building.
Company 7 opens with 56 employees. It seats 170 in its main dining room, 120 in a community room and 60 on a patio.
The restaurant — which will evoke the look of a 1920s-era firehouse — is owned by Bill and Mary Grilliot along with their son Will Grilliot and son-in-law Patrick Murty. The three men are long-time volunteer firefighters in West Milton, where the families live. Bill and Mary Grilliot owned Morning Pride Manufacturing, maker of protective clothing for firefighters, until they sold the company in 2008.
“We felt it was time to reinvest in the community,” Mary Grilliot said.
The Grilliots purchased a 14,000-square-foot former medical building and began renovating it for restaurant use, adding the patio and installing two slow-cookers, each of which can cook 1,000 pounds of meat at a time. The restaurant will smoke pork, beef brisket, chicken, turkey and sausage on-site. In October, Bill and Mary Grilliot completed their certification as Kansas City Barbecue Society BBQ judges.
“We’re slow-cooking some cuts for 18 hours,” Grilliot said.
Side dishes include mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato souffle, collard greens, applesauce, banana pudding and fruit cobbler. There is also a full appetizer and bar menu — the restaurant has a full liquor license. Drive-through service is available, and those eating inside the restaurant can choose between full table service or a “quick-serve” line that avoids the need to tip.
The restaurant will not charge for use of its community room, which has a private entrance and is fully wired with video, Internet and Direct TV.
First responders — including firefighters, police officers, EMS crews and members of the armed forces — will receive an “appreciation discount,” the Grilliots said. A grand opening is in the works for January.
Company 7 will be open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. The restaurant’s pub will stay open until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and until midnight on Friday and Saturday. For more information, visit the Company 7 BBQ web site or its Facebook page, or call (937) 836-2777.
Bill Grilliot, co-owner of Company 7 BBQ, stands alongside the 1929 Peter Pirsch fire truck that serves as a backdrop to the restaurant’s bar. Photos by Mark FisherTweet
Go to my facebook page and click Like to comment.
