A trip to Chip’s wont take a ride over the river if signs on Beckley Avenue come true.
The owner of Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger has applied for a license to sell alcoholic beverages at 1605 N. Beckley at Greenbriar. The building most recently housed a juice bar and coffee shop.
Chip’s owner Brent Gamster didn’t respond to an email or a message left at his business.
Bill and Lynn Gross opened the original Chip’s in a renovated fire house on Central Expressway in 1982 and later moved to Knox/Henderson, according to the Dallas Business Journal. They opened two other locations but had to close them because of economic struggles, the business weekly reported. Gamster, who turned around struggling businesses in his corporate job, bought the restaurant in 2011 as a way to stay closer to his family.
Now there are three locations: on Lover’s Lane at the Dallas North Tollway, in Lakewood and in Plano.
Gamster spent $400,000 renovating the Lover’s location and $1 million building out the Lakewood store, the business journal reported. He said in 2013 that his plan was to open a new restaurant every few years and build to six-eight locations in the Dallas area.
