Winger’s To Take Place Of Tony Roma’s

Spokane Journal of Business:

A representative of the Winger’s USA restaurant chain says he plans to open a new Winger’s Grill & Bar restaurant at the Spokane Valley Mall in a building that had been occupied by a Tony Roma’s restaurant, which closed earlier this month.

The new Winger’s diner is expected to open in early August at 14742 E. Indiana, says Lance Jensen, who will own the restaurant through North Bend, Wash.-based Caddis Restaurants LLC. Jensen, who is the Washington state developer for Winger’s USA, says the Valley restaurant will be the chain’s first in Washington and will be a training center for franchisees who will operate future Winger’s diners in the state. A restaurant in Yakima is slated to open next year.

‘We think the Spokane area eventually will hold 3 Winger’s,’ Jensen says.

The new Winger’s restaurant here will employ about 70 people, half of whom will be former employees of Tony Roma’s, with the others newly hired, Jensen says. Caddis Restaurants is doing minor remodeling work in the 6,000-square-foot leased building to turn it into a ‘family restaurant with a sports-bar like atmosphere,’ he says.