Sammy's Cafe Rexburg
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Entrepreneur owner/founder of multiple business ventures, Sam Schultz, announces the newest Rexburg café called “Sammy’s”.
Now it’s time to bring Sammy’s to BYU-I: Sam was born in Rexburg where his father, Harry Schultz founded and directed SHOWTIME COMPANY until Sam was 5 years old. Sam attended Rick’s College before his mission to Seattle, when he was fortunate to be a member of the final SHOWTIME COMPANY cast; a coming home of sorts. “Rexburg is such a cool place to live,” Sam says, “Sammy’s will be the place where everyone can come to promote the next fun event or activity they are doing. I encourage flyers, business cards, magnets, headshots, and all sorts of things people can leave to promote their lives”. Imagine being able to physically walk into Facebook or MySpace, but grab a bite at the same time. That’s the type of environment Sammy’s has become, and now it’s a part of the Rexburg scene for locals and students!
Located at 50 College Avenue right in the heart of REXBURG, Sammy’s is one block off main and center, right next to the Barber Shop. The famous menu (which can be found on our website: www.sammysrexburg.blogspot.com ) includes gourmet burgers, beer batter fries, sweet potato fries and our incredible REAL PIE SHAKES (your choice of any kind of pie, blended right in your shake!). “We have a line coming out the door every Friday and Saturday night for our Real Pie Shakes. You come in, choose real vanilla or chocolate ice cream, and a slice of your favorite pie, and we’ll mix up a shake for you that will knock your socks off!!” Sam says.
“I want people to be able to come and just hang out, not knowing whether it will just be a mellow day with free wireless internet and an incredible shake or drink, or whether there will be a crowd of 50 people here to get a signed copy of the next Jack Johnson or whoever’s CD”. Sam believes with such a prime location which naturally attracts the downtown crowd, this will be the place that many of the artists who his entertainment business has brought to town for concerts will choose to interact with their fans. “It’s a location that reminds me of so many of the little cafés and shops where I grew up in California. Sometimes you would walk in and some professional skater like Tony Hawk, or the bassist for the Aquabats would be just hanging out grabbing a bite, and pretty soon they were signing autographs”.
Hours of operation:
Mon-Thurs & Saturdays 11:00am to 12 midnight
Friday’s until 1:00am for the weekly “Sammy’s Sounds”, a venue providing new and well-known artists the chance to entertain in an intimate setting.
Sammy’s officially opens for business with a Grand Opening Weekend on Sept 10 & 11th, and will be a weekend full of events including a ribbon cutting and special performances by Brook White (American Idol Finalist) and Benton Paul.
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Where do I begin. Provo, um, what were you thinking? Thanks to your unexplainable fascination with this (dare I use this word) restaurant, they have seen an opportunity to expand to a college scene similar to Provo. That’s right, Sammy’s with their famous pie shakes has come to our own Rexburg, Idaho. Since the location is across the street from my favorite craft store, I saw them in the early phases of remodeling. They carefully painted a very cool white and blue sign with exquisite swirls. My husband and I were kind of excited when they opened because we had no idea what we were in for. So, skip now to the opening of the store. We walk in, with our two children. We see a big bar like diner scene, and we are thinking, where do we put the kids? We get a look from a large man in a black shirt standing behind the bar as if to say, “Oh, it’s your kind.” It was quite obvious children were a problem here. But still, we tried to stay positive. After about eight minutes of trying to figure out what you are even supposed to do, we found a tiny sign pointing us to the menus. We ordered with a little less enthusiasm than we had walking in the door. As we were waiting for the order, that’s when it happened. My kids were walking around, and we were following them. They walked into a doorway that we hadn’t noticed before, and into (again I use this term very loosely) dining room. It was adorned with musty dirty furniture, school desks, and school cafeteria tables that were undoubtedly deemed unsuitable for even middle schoolers to eat on. But Sammy’s had them. The floor was soaked in infested carpet. And forgive me but no matter how many times you spray paint a dumpster silver, it stil remains a dumpster, in the middle of the restaurant. It was very apparent that they purposefully made the restaurant this way. And no donation of any sum of money would induce them to alter it. They are determined at being tacky.
At this point, the idea of eating has completely escaped my mind, since all the tables are not only condemnable anyway, but also covered in the last three days worth of people eating on them. I had to ask a waitress to come and clean a spot for us to eat. Meanwhile Mr. Big Black Shirt is still sitting behind the bar, pretending that the family with children didn’t just dare to enter into his enigmatically popular college scene. The food comes. Well, they yell from behind the bar that our food needs to be picked up. Literally yell. Anyway, we go and bring back to our table and begin a hesitant sampling. I try to force thoughts out of my head of where this was cooked and by whom. The meal, in all honesty, wasn’t that bad. The pie shake was kind of just like a piece of pie that someone threw at the wall and then scrapped into a cup. The burgers weren’t anything special, but they surprisingly didn’t make me sick either. I don’t even feel this restaurant warrants a negative review merely on the fact that they seem to be seeking it. Perhaps this will become a framed memorial on their wall of accomplishing their objective in Rexburg as a new standard of tacky dining. Either way, you’d be better off taking a picnic lunch to Deseret Industries, and sitting on their couches. It would be cleaner. Or going to the local homeless shelter or school cafeteria. At least they wipe their tables and wear hair nets when they make food. Or most plausibly, just run down to your Sam’s Club and find all the same stuff to make your own homemade burgers at home, since it’s obvious that’s where all their “specialty” ingredients come from anyway.
I don’t wish to make a public display of how negative the experience of Sammy’s was for me. I’m only striving to forget about it entirely, and continue my existence in this town as if it never came. If you insist of indulging yourself in such a low excuse for acquiring food, do me a favor and get your hepatitis shots first.