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Freda Wobberton will concentration on turkey legs, stuffed turkey legs and loaded baked potatoes when she opens her new Longview restaurant, Fre’Duh’s Scratch Kitchen area.

She’s organizing to open her doorways June 1 at 401 S. Mobberly Ave., in which King’s Scorching Inbound links earlier was located.

The restaurant’s title performs off her initially identify and the reaction people today have to her foodstuff.

They explain to her it is delicious, she said.

“And we say, ‘Well, duh!,’” Wobberton explained.

She got her start off with a food stuff truck in 2019 and said she graduated from Kilgore College’s culinary program in 2020.

Hours will be 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.

“Everything I do is from scratch,” Wobberton stated.

She mentioned her most well known product has been turkey legs stuffed with crawfish mac and cheese, but she also stuffs turkey legs with broccoli cheese casserole and seafood boudin with crawfish tails, smoked sausage, shrimp and rice dressing.

Turkey legs that are not stuffed arrive in 11 flavors — type of like wings, she mentioned.

The menu will include other things as properly.

New possession for FFO Household

Longview’s FFO Dwelling is now American Freight Home furniture, Mattress, Equipment.

A banner has gone up saying the title transform to the keep at 405 W. Loop 281, Suite A, in the Albertson’s browsing center at McCann Highway and Loop 281. FFO filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and was then acquired by Franchise Group, the dad or mum company of American Freight. The acquisition associated more than 30 FFO Dwelling outlets.

The variations suggests the merchants will now offer appliances.

“We are fired up about the FFO House acquisition,” claimed Will Powell, CEO and president of American Freight, in a statement. “Our capacity to use this acquisition to promptly enter several new markets in which we do not presently have a presence, and protect local careers that may have normally been lost had FFO Property suppliers completely closed, created this a get-acquire for American Freight and these communities we will now have the prospect to serve.”

New optical store in the is effective

A new location of Stanton Optical is under construction at 1625 W. Loop 281 in Longview.

The previous Gonzalo’s Mexican Restaurant at 1625 W. Loop 281 was demolished to make way for the new building.

Stanton Optical, which describes itself as a “full-support retail optical middle,” is a retail brand of Now Optics. Now Optics is based mostly in Palm Springs, Florida.

Hoots growing

Hoots Wings is on the lookout for a person or two franchise operators to open up as numerous as six or 7 of the restaurant in the Longview and Tyler area.

Hoots Wings, which is described as a “Hooter’s little brother brand name,” is increasing during Texas soon after getting signed its to start with franchise arrangement for 60 locations in the Dallas-Fort Value and Austin parts with Dallas-primarily based AE Cafe Group.

HOA Manufacturers, dad or mum company of Hooters and Hoots Wings, is hoping for a lot more than 80 franchise places throughout the point out, like: About 40 dining places in Houston and surrounding counties a dozen areas in San Antonio, New Braunfels advertisement south-central Texas 5 places to eat in Corpus Christi and Nueces County 15 in the Rio Grande Valley as many as seven spots in El Paso and the 6 or seven places to eat in Longview and Tyler.

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