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Dining Review: Soddy-Daisy’s Fresh Burger Grill puts the focus on fresh

Photo by Anne Braly / The Fresh Burger Grill in Soddy-Daisy is at 8968 Dayton Pike.
Photo by Anne Braly / The Fresh Burger Grill in Soddy-Daisy is at 8968 Dayton Pike. Photo by Anne Braly / The Fresh Burger Grill in Soddy-Daisy is at 8968 Dayton Pike.

I’ve driven by Fresh Burger Grill on Dayton Pike countless times and always wondered about it. For a while, it had been a second location of Merv’s — a place known for good burgers.

Anyone can advertise fresh anything, but it doesn’t make it so. When it first opened a couple of years ago, I didn’t see many cars in the parking lot at the times I drove by. But as the weeks passed, cars started appearing pretty regularly. Sometimes by as early as 4 p.m., the parking lot was busy, even packed some evenings.

OK, that convinced me. It was time to go check it out. Particularly since it was a warm autumn evening, and sometimes there’s nothing better than a burger and fries on a hot day.

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