There’s a new roof on the fire-damaged Family Table at 3904 Ringgold Road in East Ridge, but the building’s new owner’s don’t have plans to reopen the longtime Italian-American restaurant.The all-you-can-eat buffet at East Ridge’s Family Table may never reopen, since the new owners of the building are more likely to put a car lot there than a restaurant.
The Family Table at 3904 Ringgold Road has been closed since its attic and roof caught fire the afternoon of Aug. 18.
The roof has been replaced, and workers are repairing the interior.
But the building’s new owner, Larry Crane, who also owns the C&C Motors car dealership at 6015 International Drive fronting Highway 153 near Shallowford Road, doesn’t plan to reopen it as the Family Table, said his son, David Crane.
“We might put a car lot there or somebody might rent it from us,” David Crane said. “We just bought the property for an investment.”