Sneak peek: Meet downtown Dayton’s next new restaurant

Downtown Dayton’s newest restaurant has started hiring as it gears up to open in early fall.

Initially, plans call for Table 33 at 130 W. Second St. to open only the bakery and bar part of the restaurant, followed four to six weeks later by the full-service restaurant portion of the business, co-founder Chris Harrison said this week during a walk-through of the new restaurant.

Table 33 will be hosting open interviews starting next week from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays for all positions, including baristas, bartenders, servers, kitchen staff and managers, Harrison said. An application is available on the Table33Dayton.com web site.

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Table 33 will start out as primarily a breakfast-and-lunch eatery, serving dishes such as Chicken and Waffles, Sweet Potato and Chorizo Hash and French Toast, with a full lineup of coffees and fresh-pressed fruit juices, Harrison and co-founder Charlie Carroll said. And the restaurant has obtained a liquor license and will open some evenings, particularly on show nights for the nearby Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, the owners said.

The restaurant will seat about 100 diners inside and dozens more on a patio.

The space previously housed Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers, the Downtown Grill & Cafe, and, before that, the first incarnation of Sidebar lounge. The restaurant space has been vacant since August 2015, when Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers — which operated on South Jefferson Street for 24 years before relocating to West Second Street — shut its doors.

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Harrison and Carroll are also co-founders of theNorthGate church at 138 S. Wilkinson St. a few blocks from the restaurant. The restaurant will operate independently from the church, the co-founders said. A separate company, Table Thirty Three LLC, has been formed to run the eatery.

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