![]() ![]() ![]() Order: Stuffed chicken, corn on the cob, coleslaw, deviled eggs, blueberry muffin, macaroni and cheese, coconut cream pie, Diet Mountain Dew Location: MCL Restaurant and Bakery Muncie Mall, Muncie, Indiana (One-time home of Norville Barnes, fictional inventor of the Hula Hoop) The Muncie MCL is located just inside a portal back to 1994. Feeling ever hungrier, I plotted a course to Muncie, Indiana’s imaginatively named Muncie Mall, home of an increasingly rare mall-based MCL location. ![]() Despite a few shortcomings, I looked back fondly at the one meal I had experienced previously at a Columbus area MCL, thanks in part to a lifelong love for old school cafeteria dining. I decided that I would use my new found free time in the Hoosier state to experience a few different MCL locations to get a better feel for what they had to offer in terms of food and experience. While they have shrunk by 50% or so in recent years thanks to being predominantly located in or near shopping malls, the 13 unit cafeteria chain whose full name is “MCL Restaurant and Bakery” still has a strong presence in central Indiana. Much like a hermit crab, Top Notch Diner has moved into the discarded shell of the dearly departed Azar's Big Boy. It was as I was driving past the mom and pop restaurant that now occupies what was until recently the last operating Azar’s Big Boy, that I decided I needed to formulate a new plan that would get me out of Fort Wayne. While signage was still in place, the restaurant had clearly been closed for quite a while. Unfortunately, I found in that case, Google had been correct. Since Google had been wrong about Powers being open, I thought it was at least possible that they had also been wrong about the Miami Grill across town being closed, so my next stop was the Marathon gas station that shares space with the Midwest’s only Miami Grill. "Eat here, get gas" is the wittiest caption I can come up with. (The latter still shows the business as operational almost two weeks later, so I’m hopeful that Powers Hamburgers hasn’t closed for good.) When I arrived at Powers Hamburgers late on a Saturday morning, I found the building dark and unoccupied during what should have been its operating hours indicated by both a sign on the door and Google. I also planned on stopping by Miami Grill (aka Miami Subs) in Fort Wayne to see if that location had reopened since it announced a temporary closure last year. My original plan was to stop by Powers Hamburgers in Fort Wayne, the final location of a family owned chain of slider stands in Michigan and Indiana, on my way out to Terre Haute where I would eat at both Taco Casita, and a local MCL. I didn’t even plan on writing about that MCL meal because I had previously covered a different MCL in Ohio, but Uncle Alligator, patron deity of broken restaurant chains, had other plans for me. ![]() It was in pursuit of a memorable presentation of freshly prepared food that I planned a stop at an MCL cafeteria on my recent trip through Indiana. While food procured in this manner served to scratch an itch for dining out, there was a clear dearth of emphasis on food presentation and freshness. The food that we would eat that we didn't cook was delivered either through a drive through or at our doorstep by a delivery driver. He declined to provide the results of that test, which he said was not performed for the police, or talk about the case on the record.Over the past year, I’ve done a lot more cooking for myself and my partner than I ordinarily would have otherwise. The club says Coy was never a full-time employee but rather worked as a contractor for certain management duties.Ĭonfronted at the Funky Biscuit last month by a New Times reporter about the sexual abuse claims, Coy denied the allegations and said he had passed a polygraph test about them. Because of the nature of these allegations, The Funky Biscuit has decided to terminate our consulting arrangement with Mr. "Neither The Funky Biscuit nor any of its employees were aware of these allegations prior to yesterday. "Yesterday, through an article published by Miami New Times, we were made aware of certain allegations involving one of our associates, Mr. The club now says that it has terminated any relationship with Coy and that the owners had no inkling he'd been accused of child abuse. Coy was never charged in the case and had already resigned from Calvary over an admitted string of extramarital affairs.Īfter his preaching career ended, he landed work managing the Funky Biscuit, a nightclub in Mizner Park in Boca Raton. As New Times revealed in an investigation published Tuesday, former Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Pastor Bob Coy - who once led the largest megachurch in Florida - was accused in 2015 of molesting a girl for more than a decade, beginning when she was 4 years old. ![]()
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