Dining
BY HEATHER MCCULLOUGH
The FCG Sampler ($15.99) comes with calamari, fried pickles, shrimp and crab queso.
HEATHER MCCULLOUGH COMMUNITY IMPACT
Fish City Grill o ers rotating specialty dishes that are not on the regular menu like the red sh special.
HEATHER MCCULLOUGH COMMUNITY IMPACT
Fish City Grill o ers unique seafood dining experience Owners and Co-founders Bill and Lovett Bayne opened Fish City Grill with the hopes of bringing people in for the food but getting them to come back because of the environment and community that is built in each store, the couple said. The background store. The specials are seasonal and include ve specials a day.
Fish City Grill prides themselves in creating a fun environment where team members can be themselves.
HEATHER MCCULLOUGH COMMUNITY IMPACT
“I’ll bring in sh that is unique to the area based on talking to the customers and seeing what they would like here,” said Chris Martinez, general manager of Fish City Grill Prosper. Giving back In 2001, the Bayne’s saw the impact of 9/11 and decided to give back to local charities. That’s when they started the First Tuesday Bene t. On the rst Tuesday of each month, every store takes 15% of the sales made that day and donates it to a local charity of their choosing. What’s special about it Fish City Grill prides themselves in creating a fun environment where team members can be themselves, Martinez said. “We have a group of individual people that are all unique in their own way that bring some value to this restaurant,” Martinez said. Fish City Grill’s “no schmucks” policy ensures they choose sta members that value their work. “There’s such a strong connection between customers and sta ,” Lovett Bayne said. “It really is a community within our four walls.”
Bill Bayne often visited the “warm, green, balmy coastal Texas” where he often ate seafood with his family. After Bill and Lovett Bayne met, they started a 12 table restaurant in Dallas. Now Fish City Grill has expanded to 17 restaurants across Texas and one in Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma. On the menu The seafood restaurant in Prosper serves a variety of seafood dishes including shrimp and chicken penne alfredo, blackened rainbow trout and fresh oysters with a specialty dish of oyster nachos. Other fan favorites include the sh and chips and sh tacos. “Serving and selling great seafood is not easy so we’re proud we are able to do that,” Bill Bayne said. Chalkboard specials are created every day by the executive chef or the general manager of each
Bill and Lovett Bayne co-founded Fish City Grill with a location in Snider Plaza, Dallas.
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