HOUSTON - Frenchy’s legendary restaurant closed its original location months later than expected. Owner Percy Creuzot, III said several ingredients slowed their move.
“We’ve been working on this over a year,” Creuzot, III said.
Between blueprints drawn by his father and the restaurant’s late founder, Percy Creuzot, Jr., and land owned two blocks north at Scott and Alabama, ownership tasted plenty of deep-fried disappointment.
“Certainly some unforeseen things have been road blocks,” Creuzot, III said.
He named financing, securing permits through the City of Houston and getting desired architectural designs perfect as challenges delaying a move expected to be complete by the Spring of 2018.
Creuzot, III said final plans must win his mom, Sallie’s approval.
“Whatever she says, that’s it,” he said.
Sallie Creuzot saw the restaurant grow from a kiosk-sized stand with one fryer and a cash register into a 49-year-old institution customers line up to enjoy.
“I would have flown in from California to get the last original Frenchy’s chicken,” said Deborah Stewart, who lives in Jersey Village.
In order to get out the way of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church’s expansion delayed because of Frenchy’s stalled move, the restaurant is temporarily moving one block south at the corner of Scott and Blodgett streets. It will take two days to set up. However, ownership plants to be in their permanent location by Frenchy’s 50th anniversary July 3.
When asked if meeting that goal looks promising, Creuzot, III said, “Yeah. That’s what we are pushing.”
Until then, customers will taste and see down the street.