This Week's Restaurant Review--More Chicken

By Sam L. Smithers
Restaurant Reviewer

This week we visited Charlie's Chicken in Grove. This is a place for the Big Fellas, the 400 pounders in overalls that can eat more chicken than Tyson.
But since it was lunch, we decided to get the $4.99 special, which with tax comes to a mere $5.56. This includes your choice of two pieces of chicken, chicken fried steak, and something else which we didn't catch.
The counter girl took our order for the chicken fried steak and the two sides, slaw and mashed taters and gravy and said it would be right out in a minute.
Ten minutes passed.
The Big Fella in the next booth made two trips to the buffet in the meantime, grabbing enough food to justify wrecker service. Why didn't I think of that.
The counter girl realized she had plumb forgot our order and rushed to the buffet where she quickly grabbed a chicken fried steak, a spoonful of taters and gravy, slaw, and a bowl of peach cobbler. The ice machine was out of ice so the tea was, well, just tea.
The order was delivered on a plastic/paper plate with plastic tools. The chicken fried steak put up great resistance at being attacked by the plastic knife; the steak won. It had been sitting in the buffet line for a couple of hours at least. Everything else was delicious.
Warning: Do not depend on Counter Girl to dish up your food, do it yourself.
We note that the restaurant on Honey Creek is closed; the Dairy Queen is for sale; the Railroad looking place is for sale; and another unnamed restaurant is sold, waiting on legal closings.
This does not bode well for Sam Smithers, as soon there will be no restaurants to review in Grove.