Chubby’s Set, Chloe Closes

Signature Plaza on Joyce Boulevard and Crossover Road is losing one tenant and gaining another.
Chubby’s Coneys, which longtime Fayetteville residents may remember from its previous location downtown on Block Street in the early 1990s, is reopening sometime around July 20 or 21 according to owner Floyd Singleton, who is partnering with his brother Wade Singleton on the restaurant.
The Singletons will offer authentic New York style Coney Island dogs, tamales, chili cheese fries, chips and homemade salsa, Frito pies, taco salads and what they call the “Hawg Dog.” The Hawg Dog is a bratwurst soaked for 24 hours in dark beer and served with sauerkraut and mustard.
“And a cold beer,” Floyd Singleton added over the screams of power tools in the background. “We’re about hot dogs, beer and baseball.
“The timing wasn’t right back in the ’90s. I had two small kids and now they’re grown. My brother and I always wanted to be in business together and we’re both single now.”
Singleton said Chubby’s will be family friendly, affordable and open six days a week. The space is around 1,500 SF next door to Tropical Smoothies and Singleton said he will employ between 5 and 10 people.
While Signature has filled a spot with Chubby’s, it is losing anchor tenant Chloe, which closed on July 2. The restaurant had sales of $563,800 during 2006, and made $149,900 for the first four months of 2007.
Chloe is the fourth major restaurant in Northwest Arkansas to close in the last few months, joining Fayetteville’s O’Charleys and Smokey Bones and Bentonville’s Brioso Brazil.