Mongolian Bbq Goes Buffet Style
Valley buffet lovers will have one more place to dig in next month when Mongolian BBQ opens in Sullivan Square.
The assemble-it-yourself-style Oriental restaurant will open Feb. 9, said owner Lance Wigton, who also runs the Mongolian BBQ restaurant in Coeur d’Alene.
Currently, workers are finishing construction on the 100-seat restaurant at Sprague and Sullivan and Wigton is hiring employees. He said he expects to hire around 25 to 30 people.
The restaurant, located east of the new Hastings Books and Music store, will have two grills, where cooks will fry up people’s assembled food.
Wigton is excited about moving to the Valley.
“I feel like that location is going to be dynamite,” he said.
Not only will the business be able to draw customers from the busy Sprague and Sullivan retail corridors, but the area does not have as heavy a concentration of Oriental restaurants as Spokane’s North Side.
“I’m glad we went that route,” he said of choosing to expand in the Valley. “If we were going to stake claims, we picked a good location and staked it early.”
Dog grooming business opens
Sandy Nelson started handling and training show dogs back in the early 1980s.
After attending several competitions, Nelson started to notice those special sheared coats and balls on a poodle’s tail and she thought, “What a talent that must be.”
Years later and now certified as a groomer, Nelson opened up shop three weeks ago at the corner of 32nd Avenue and Highway 27 in the Superstore 24 center next to Exxon.
She offers cleaning, shampooing and styling of dogs. A poodle costs $20 to $22 dollars and a Saint Bernard runs about $50.
The business also offers self-service tubs for dog owners who want to shampoo and style Rover’s coat themselves.
Nelson continues to raise Pekinese and to handle show dogs for other people.
Express personnel expands
Express Personnel Services opened a Valley branch office at 618 N. Sullivan.
Co-owner Ira Amstadter said he and his wife, Susan, who bought their downtown business in 1994 and decided to expand to the Valley last year because almost half of their clients are based in the Valley.
“It is very beneficial to our clients for us to be close by,” he said. The company helps staff businesses with temporary, part-time, full-time and executive employees.
The business is part of an Oklahoma City-based franchise network that is made up of 350 offices worldwide.
The Valley office presently is staffed by just one manager, but Amstadter predicted he will add three more employees.
, DataTimes