Food Works kitchen employee Matt Thompson uses a floor shampoo machine to clean the cold prep kitchen downstairs in the former knitting mill building on Manufacturer’s Road on Monday. The business had a weekend fire in a hood vent.
Site of fire at Food Works in Chattanooga.
Caution tape is wrapped around the door and a sign telling customers the business is closed is posted on the window Sunday at FoodWorks after an early-morning fire.Food Works is down but not out.
Head chef Jeremy Allin said it’s too early to tell when the popular North Chattanooga restaurant will reopen, but things aren’t as bad as they first seemed to be following a Sunday morning kitchen fire.
The blaze has temporarily closed the restaurant on Manufacturers Road.
“There’s not a lot of damage other than smoke. It wasn’t that bad,” Allin said. Initial TV news reports, he said, “made it sound like the place burned to the ground.”
The fire started at 2:50 a.m., the Chattanooga Fire Department said in a news release, and it took several fire companies about 20 minutes to get it under control.