Roy’s Restaurant in Rossville.
ROSSVILLE – The two men vying to be Rossville’s next mayor agree on one thing: voters want to talk about Roy’s Diner and the Downtown Development Authority that brokered the Roy’s deal.
From there they diverge, including over whether the city-sponsored group’s involvement with the restaurant was a good idea.
Former fire chief Bill Eaves, 69, says he’s heard from plenty of voters who are upset with the authority and the way it handled the acquisition and resale of the iconic restaurant on U.S. Highway 27. Eaves said he had a business that stood on its own for 25 years without government help.
“I don’t think the city needs to be in the financing business,” Eaves said.
But councilman and mayoral candidate Teddy Harris, 48, says there’s a lot of support for a reinvented Roy’s. He’s one of the RDDA’s biggest supporters.