After nearly a year of renovation, A. Marshall Family Foods Inc. today opened its newest Puckett's restaurant in the Tennessee Aquarium plaza in downtown Chattanooga.
Puckett' hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony today to mark the opening of the Chattanooga eatery, located in the former TGIFriday restaurant space near the Tennesssee Aquarium.
The Southern-inspired restaurant, located at Market and East First Streets, offers breakfast, lunch and dinner menus and live music on stage every weekend - and many weekday nights as well. The 6,750-square-foot restaurant is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. most nights and later on weekends.
The typical breakfast at Pucket's cost $9 and below; luncheon fares average $11 and below, and dinner meals are typically around $18 each. When top music acts are playing on weekends, Puckett's also usually has a cover charge.
The Chattanooga Puckett's is the fourth for Andy Marshall since he retired as an executive from Piggly Wiggly grocery and bought a small grocery and diner in Leiper's Fork in Williamson Conty in 2004. His "retirement project" has since grown into a $4 million-a-year business with restaurants in Nashville, Franklin and Columbia, Tenn.
The 200-seat Chattanooga restaurant is Puckett's biggest. When the doors opened this morning, people lined up to check out the newest restaurant and entertainment attraction on the riverfront.