{"id":1676,"date":"2007-04-16T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/04\/16\/potbelly-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T14:25:57","slug":"potbelly-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/potbelly-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Potbelly is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/461499769\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Potbelly Sandwich Works at Arbor Walk\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2007\/04\/461499769_f4ab442c8a_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>I was introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potbelly.com\">Potbelly Sandwich Works<\/a> on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/chi-town\/\">business trip to Chicago<\/a> four years ago. The franchise has been around for 30 years and mostly in the Great Lakes area of the country, but it looks like they&#8217;re undergoing an expansion.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potbelly.com\/stores3.0.asp\">two locations<\/a> opening up in Austin this Spring, one at the new Arbor Walk shopping center at Braker and Mopac (where I took this picture this morning) and one at 2316 Guadalupe. It looks like it&#8217;ll be at least a week or two before the Arbor Walk location opens.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a welcome relief for the lunch sandwich market around here. I&#8217;ve been sick of Thundercloud for years and I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of Quizno&#8217;s except for those crazy hamster commercials they ran a couple of years ago. Schlotzsky&#8217;s isn&#8217;t bad. I&#8217;ll hit Delaware and Texadelphia for the occasional cheesesteak. I&#8217;ve nearly gotten tired of Jersey Mike&#8217;s, but I still don&#8217;t mind going there. Subway isn&#8217;t really even worth mentioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to Potbelly Sandwich Works on a business trip to Chicago four years ago. The franchise has been around for 30 years and mostly in the Great Lakes area of the country, but it looks like they&#8217;re undergoing an expansion. There are two locations opening up in Austin this Spring, one at the <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/potbelly-is-coming\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-r2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}