2008 Woodie Awards
New buffet to open next week
Alex Boles
Issue date: 4/24/08 Section: News
Kirksville soon will welcome its fifth Chinese restaurant to town.
The New Super China Buffet is located just north of Wal-Mart next to Radio Shack and will open during the next week, restaurant employee Weng YuYung said. The restaurant currently is preparing to open by filling out the proper paperwork for a business license.
YuYung said the business manager and other family members arrived Wednesday. He said it is a family business and that the building was a clothing store before it was a restaurant. The restaurant will serve traditional Chinese cuisine in a large buffet located in the back of the restaurant, which has a spacious dining area.
Freshman Mary Peng, waitress and hostess for New China Palace located on the Square, translated restaurant owner Guojian Loiu's opinions about The New Super China Buffet.
"[The owners] felt that our restaurant has been here for a while, and it's really near campus," Peng said. "It's easier for students to come here because it's right by the Square as a comparison to all the way on the other side of Wal-Mart. So we feel like it's not going to be that much of a difference. We're not really worried about it."
New China Palace also is a family-operated business, and the owners started working there at the beginning of this year, she said. Peng said the restaurant has not had much trouble with competition and that they don't think the new restaurant will pose any problems.
"I don't feel like it's that big of an issue," Peng said.
Senior Laura Beth Cleveland said she hasn't heard anything about a new restaurant opening but that she eats Chinese food about once a month and would be open to trying something new.
"I would like to try it out," Cleveland said. "I don't know where it is or anything about it, but I like trying new things and that would definitely be neat, especially in Kirksville where new things don't come along terribly often."
Cleveland said the location of the restaurant could hinder business and that she typically dines on the Square.
"It doesn't make sense to go all the way out to Wal-Mart," she said. "I would say that it might also need to be somewhat different than all the other Chinese restaurants that we have right now, so I would say maybe the fact that we have so many Chinese restaurants, there's more of a limiting factor to people making the extra drive out there, but, you know, if you're going to Wal-Mart I guess you could just kind of stop by. Maybe that could help it out a little bit."
She said the distance would not be a problem for her because she has a car but that she does not know why Kirksville needs five Chinese restaurants.
"Five Chinese restaurants - you'd think that would satisfy the needs of a campus and a small town such as Kirksville," she said. "I don't honestly know, but I guess they suppose it could be profitable, so go ahead and try for it."
The New Super China Buffet is located just north of Wal-Mart next to Radio Shack and will open during the next week, restaurant employee Weng YuYung said. The restaurant currently is preparing to open by filling out the proper paperwork for a business license.
YuYung said the business manager and other family members arrived Wednesday. He said it is a family business and that the building was a clothing store before it was a restaurant. The restaurant will serve traditional Chinese cuisine in a large buffet located in the back of the restaurant, which has a spacious dining area.
Freshman Mary Peng, waitress and hostess for New China Palace located on the Square, translated restaurant owner Guojian Loiu's opinions about The New Super China Buffet.
"[The owners] felt that our restaurant has been here for a while, and it's really near campus," Peng said. "It's easier for students to come here because it's right by the Square as a comparison to all the way on the other side of Wal-Mart. So we feel like it's not going to be that much of a difference. We're not really worried about it."
New China Palace also is a family-operated business, and the owners started working there at the beginning of this year, she said. Peng said the restaurant has not had much trouble with competition and that they don't think the new restaurant will pose any problems.
"I don't feel like it's that big of an issue," Peng said.
Senior Laura Beth Cleveland said she hasn't heard anything about a new restaurant opening but that she eats Chinese food about once a month and would be open to trying something new.
"I would like to try it out," Cleveland said. "I don't know where it is or anything about it, but I like trying new things and that would definitely be neat, especially in Kirksville where new things don't come along terribly often."
Cleveland said the location of the restaurant could hinder business and that she typically dines on the Square.
"It doesn't make sense to go all the way out to Wal-Mart," she said. "I would say that it might also need to be somewhat different than all the other Chinese restaurants that we have right now, so I would say maybe the fact that we have so many Chinese restaurants, there's more of a limiting factor to people making the extra drive out there, but, you know, if you're going to Wal-Mart I guess you could just kind of stop by. Maybe that could help it out a little bit."
She said the distance would not be a problem for her because she has a car but that she does not know why Kirksville needs five Chinese restaurants.
"Five Chinese restaurants - you'd think that would satisfy the needs of a campus and a small town such as Kirksville," she said. "I don't honestly know, but I guess they suppose it could be profitable, so go ahead and try for it."
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