The owner of downtown Chattanooga’s Chicken Salad Chick location says he has no firm plans to leave his Market Street location, but he is looking at other central city sites.
“We like a downtown presence,” said store owner Josh Patton. “We might not need as large a restaurant.”
Patton said his downtown store at 629 Market St. is about 4,000 square feet and larger than the typical 2,600-square-foot Chicken Salad Chick.
“We have no firm plans on anything we’re going to do,” he said.
Patton also said he doesn’t take issue with the planned business improvement district downtown. He said he wished the downtown store performed better, but that’s due more to parking and access.
Patton said he’s looking at an additional unit in Hixson and Fort Oglethorpe.
“I’m not going to do anything until I have another location,” he said.
VW recall to fix roll away risks
Volkswagen is recalling about 679,000 cars in the U. S. to fix a problem that could let the cars to roll away unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain 2011 through 2018 Jettas; 2015 through 2019 GTIs; 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 Golfs; 2012 through 2019 Beetles and Beetle Convertibles; and 2017 through 2019 Golf SportWagens. All have automatic transmissions, manual hand brakes and keyless entry.
VW says silicate can build up on a shift lever switch, allowing the key to be removed if the lever isn’t in park. That could let the cars roll off unexpectedly.
Dealers will add a switch and circuit board to fix the problem. The recall starts on Oct. 11.
A VW spokesman says he’s not aware of any crashes or injuries due to the problem.
Storm cut power output at TVA nuclear plant
The Tennessee Valley Authority’s biggest nuclear power plant was forced to reduce power generation this week when a lighting strike cut power to the plant’s seven cooling towers and temporarily limited the ability to cool the heated water in the plant’s condensers.
TVA Nuclear Chief Tim Rausch said the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant returned to full power generation the next day, but two of the reactors were cut to 50% power and the other was reduced to 90% power after the lightning strike Monday night cut off operation of some of the cooling towers at the plant near Athens, Alabama. Rausch said he unaware if such an incident had ever previously occurred at the plant, which has been in operation since 1967.
TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said the “freak accident” cut power to the cooling towers, which in turn required TVA to scale back operation of its Browns Ferry reactors during some of the hottest days of the summer for part of Monday and Tuesday. Hopson said reactor safety was not compromised by the incident and it was not a reportable event to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Earlier this summer, TVA completed its $475 million uprate of the three reactors at Browns Ferry, which boosts the power output of the plant by another 465 megawatts. With 3.4 megawatts of generation capacity, Browns Ferry is the nation’s second biggest nuclear power plant.