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STEAKING A CLAIM
13th Avenue’s newest addition, the Philly Grill, recently
opened its doors to the campus area
By Mason West
Oregon Daily Emerald
With broad arms and a barrel
stomach, Matt McAllister
looks just like a cheeses
teak man might look. Per
haps, then, it is of little surprise
that he finds himself managing the
Philly Grill, the newest addition to
the smorgasbord of restaurants in
the campus area.
McAllister, 30, was born and
raised in Springfield and graduat
ed from the University in 1999
with a degree in economics. So to
capture the true East Coast sand
wich flavor, he and co-owner
Richard Mellert, 32, went on a
two-week survey of cheesesteak
cities, including Philadelphia and
New York.
“Not a bad vacation,” McAllister
said.
On Thursday, he oversaw the
team at the Philly Grill working
the first “lunch rush,” while trying
to iron out some opening bugs.
“We can’t use the key for the
weekly special, but we’ll probably
start it (Friday) with the Philly,” he
said.
The “Philadelphia Cheesesteak”
is the staple of the restaurant and
what sets it apart from the four
other sub shops in the East 13th
Avenue campus area. Mellert, a
dedicated cheesesteak lover, said
simply, “You can’t get a good
cheesesteak around here.”
But Mellert isn’t putting all his
eggs in one basket. The menu in
cludes a variety of subs, includ
ing the “Scooby Snack Sub,”
which allows diners to create
their own.
When Mellert secured the loca
tion at 860 E. 13th Ave., previous
ly home to Face the Music, he de
cided to further diversify the
business by creating the Blue Buf
falo to serve pizza and wings.
Mellert said the Blue Buffalo, also
located inside, will begin opera
tion toward the end of next week.
While taking a break from his
meal, senior music major Marshall
Bex said that offering different
meal options through the Blue Buf
falo was a good idea to hedge the
restaurant’s bets.
“Anywhere you go, it seems like
there’s a lot of sub shops — it’s
hard to tell how this one will do,”
he said.
Bex was pleased with the
cheesesteak he tried on Thursday,
Thomas Patterson Emerald
Kyle Banes and J.J. Colwell build cheesesteaks at the Philly Grill on 13th Avenue. The
process is a hallowed tradition to the true cheesesteak connoisseur.
and said he will probably come
back. But Campus Sub Shop em
ployee Alyssa Oziel said there’s
more to sub culture than the
sandwich.
“People have their loyalties,”
she said. “Our place is a bit more
affordable, so people come here
because they know it’s cheap.”
Senior political science major
Kevin Baptista gives his alle
giance to Big Town Hero, where
he eats every day.
“I don’t even like that Quizno’s
moved in,” he said. “I probably
won’t even go in there (Philly
Grill).”
Jeff Alie, the other Philly Grill
owner, said that the restaurant isn’t
trying to capture the whole market,
but “just a slice — no pun intend
ed,” he said.
But Christi Rapp, co-owner of
Big Town Hero, said she wonders
how much more the market can be
divided.
“There really isn’t enough.to go
around. There’s too much compe
tition, especially since the EMU
opened up restaurants,” she said.
Mellert and Alie have a lot rid
ing on the success of the Philly
Grill and the Blue Buffalo; the
two have plans to eventually
franchise the restaurants. Mellert
said one of the reasons this loca
tion was designed more elegantly
than other sub shops was to be a
“showpiece” for potential buyers.
But when all is said and done,
the prize is in the pudding.
“You might come into a place
once because it looks good, but un
less the sandwich is good, you’re
not coming back,” Mellert said.
E-mail senior Pulse reporter Mason West
at masonwest@dailyemerald.com.
Air travelers should pack their patience
■ Starting today, Eugene Airport
is employing stricter methods
of checking travelers’ baggage
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Travelers flying from Eugene
Airport today will have their lug
gage examined more closely be
cause of more stringent bag check
ing methods.
“We’re telling customers to pack
their patience,” Horizon Air
spokeswoman Cheryl Temple said.
Airport officials are being patient
as well, as Horizon and the other
two airline companies that service
Eugene Airport haven’t said what
security measures they’ll use to
screen baggage for bombs. Congress
passed the Transportation and Avi
ation Security Act on Nov. 19 and
required airlines to check bags us
ing one of four procedures. Starting
today, bags must be examined by
hand, screened by special bomb de
tection machines, passed by the
noses of canine bomb-sniffing
squads or kept on the ground until
the bag’s owner is aboard the plane.
“The airlines are not quick to ful
ly discuss what they’re doing,” Eu
gene Airport Director of Operations
Mike Coontz said. The Eugene Air
port doesn’t have one of the mil
lion-dollar bomb machines yet, and
there are no dog teams in place, so
airlines are left with two options.
Manually searching bags is more
thorough, but could cause long
lines. And 100 percent bag match
ing, the security process that re
quires a passenger to be on the
same plane as the luggage, has its
own problems.
Coontz reiterated that a passen
ger failing to show up for a flight
after checking a bag would have
the bag yanked from the cargo
hold of the plane, so no-shows
could cause considerable delays.
Bag matching doesn’t foil suicide
bombers, and right now the gov
ernment only requires airlines to
bag-match on the first stage of a
flight. This may streamline the
process, but does nothing to keep
passengers safe from bags trans
ferred onto planes on the second
or third leg of a journey. In fact, a
transferred luggage bomb de
stroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
Coontz. said whatever method
the airlines use, they’ll have to
work out problems on their own.
“Baggage screening is not within
our oversight,” Coontz said. “Al
though we will work with the air
lines, at the end of the day, I don’t
check up on them.”
E-mail community reporter Brook Reinhard
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.