The Crab Spot, located at 811 S. Irby St. in Florence, has opened in the former Applebee’s building.
The Crab Spot on South Irby Street in Florence serves seafood and more, including this shrimp fettucine.
FLORENCE, S.C. – The Crab Spot, located at 811 S. Irby St. in Florence, has opened in the former Applebee’s building.
Open for three weeks, the Crab Spot offers an extensive menu of seafood, chicken, steak and pork chops, along with appetizers, sides and dessert.
This is their third location, said Nate Alford, Senior Operations Director for the chain.
He said the owner from Atlanta, Georgia, started the chain about 2½ years ago with the first restaurant in Sumter. He wanted to branch out in smaller markets in the area to keep people from having to travel to Columbia or Charleston for good seafood, Alford said.
He saw the need for good seafood restaurants in smaller markets and opened another in Lake City, Alford said. He said they had so many customers coming from Florence to eat in the Lake City location that it just made sense for Florence to be the next location.
“If you don’t like seafood, we have something for everyone,” Alford said.
Alford said the restaurant offers everything from quesadillas to oxtails and from chicken wings to pork chops and steak.
Seafood includes crab legs, oysters, shrimp, lobster tails, blue crab, mussels and more.
The restaurant serves lunch and dinner. It is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Alford said he has been in the food service industry all of his life. He was vice president of operations for Wendy’s for 15 years.
Veronica Tims is the manager of the Crab Spot in Florence.
Alford said the restaurant has been doing well so far.
“This was a great opportunity,” he said.
He said they opened two stores during the pandemic and saw that as a great way to help people by providing them job opportunities.
A fourth restaurant, Phillys and Wingz, is scheduled to open in April on U.S. 52 in Florence.
The Crab Spot seats 115, but due to COVID guidelines, only 50 are allowed for inside dining at this time. Alford said they added a drive-thru for convenience so people who don’t want to come inside.
He said the restaurant is following all social distancing, mask-wearing and sanitizing guidelines of the CDC. Employee temperatures are taken daily, he said.
January 12, 2021 at 06:11AM
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