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Marriage and Family
Therapy grad students
Shera Davis and
Stephanie Belcher eat
lunch at the Flying Dog
Cafe and Deli.
Mark McCambridge
Emerald
Flying Dogs Cafe appeals
to late-night customers
New cafe and deli near campus
features both upscale and
low-budget meals, as well as
student-friendly dining hours
Jennifer Bear
Campus/City Culture Reporter
Since its opening Sept. 12, the Fly
ing Dogs Cafe and Deli has given stu
dents another option for food and
fun in off-campus dining. Owners
Gary and Suzanne Smith, formerly
of Cleveland, Ohio, say their restau
rant can appeal to a wide variety of
customers, including students
and professors, vegetarians and
meat-eaters.
Located at 1249 Alder Street, Fly
ing Dogs offers its customers an as
sortment of specialty salads, hot
dogs, hamburgers, appetizers, sand
wiches, wraps, desserts and upscale
meals, such as grilled salmon and
chicken parmesan. Students can eat
at Flying Dogs and pay as little as
$1.85 for a hot dog, or shell out
$13.95 for the most expensive item
on the menu: Andon’s Marinated
Rib-Eye.
“One big way to describe our
menu is options,” Gary Smith said.
Smith says that the restaurant is
very distinctive. A few things he says
set Flying Dogs apart from the com
petition are the variety of food op
tions available, such as sweet potato
french fries and vegetarian hot dogs.
He also says Flying Dogs will appeal
to students because it’s open much
later than most restaurants. Flying
Dogs closes at midnight Sunday
through Thursday, and is open until
1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Another thing that differentiates
Flying Dogs from other restaurants is
the gargoyle theme seen throughout.
The restaurant’s logo is a friendly
looking gargoyle dog wearing avia
tion goggles — there are also several
photographs of gargoyles adorning
the walls of the restaurant.
Flying Dogs is located next to Ben
and Jerry’s on Alder, where the
restaurant Yelo used to be. Smith
says getting the restaurant ready for
business was quite a challenge be
cause it had to be done so fast. Some
of the changes made to the space in
cluded upgrading the equipment,
laying down carpet, installing two
television sets, repainting and redec
orating to incorporate the “friendly”
gargoyle theme and restaurant logo.
Irvin Hubler, University senior
and Flying Dogs cook, said the
restaurant has already served a wide
variety of custom' s such as hospi
tal workers, families, students and
late-nighters. Hubler was also a cook
at Yelo and says his experience there
was different from working at Flying
Dogs. According to Hubler, Flying
Dogs is organized and has an excit
ing menu. He also says he likes
working at the new restaurant be
cause the cooking staff receives a lot
of respect from the management.
Smith says Flying Dogs has been
doing very well since its opening,
thanks to customer loyalty. He adds
that the restaurant has had many
customers come back four or five
times. “Repeat business has been
awesome,” Smith said.
Smith is new to the area. He has
only been living in Eugene since
Aug. 9, while his wife and three
daughters are still in Ohio trying to
sell their house. He says he and his
wife chose to move their family to
Eugene to open their restaurant be
cause they love the laid-back, friend
ly people. In addition, Smith says he
wanted the restaurant to be located
near the college campus because it
provides an atmosphere of culture
and vibrancy.
Smith has owned several success
ful businesses, but Flying Dogs is his
first restaurant venture. Owning a
restaurant, however, has been a very'
important dream for him he says.
His father owned a restaurant, he
loves to cook and his wife worked 10
years as a server. Smith says he and
his wife were very successful and fi
nancially secure in Cleveland but
weren’t happy, which prompted
their move and the opening of
the restaurant.
“My wife and I left ‘Corporate
America’ wanting to do something
different,” Smith said.
Contact the reporter
atjenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
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