Officials from Eat’n Park are proposing a 1,400-square-foot addition to their Murrysville location that will expand the dining room and add a drive-thru window.
“We’re looking to do several things,” said Jesse Stock, Eat’n Park’s director of design and construction. “One is the addition of the pickup window. Right now 49 of our 57 locations have the pickup window. We’ve been doing it for quite a few years and haven’t seen any problems with it.”
The other major addition is an expansion of the dining area on the western side of the restaurant located in the Village of Murrysville shopping center off Route 22.
“We’re also relocating and adding handicapped parking stalls,” Stock said. “We’ll now have four instead of two, and overall with the expansion we have a net loss of just three parking spaces.”
A lane dedicated to the pickup window, as well as another dedicated to deliveries, will both be one-way, and Stock said they plan to relocate the existing Dumpster.
“Right now it’s blocking where our pickup window would go,” he said. “So this will also help the overall circulation around the space. You wouldn’t believe how many vehicles come around the side and don’t realize it’s a dead end. So this would also help make that area (on the restaurant’s eastern side) much more safe.”
The pickup window would not be a place where customers would order, Stock said.
“We’re making everything fresh, so it will take about 20 minutes to prepare a meal for the pickup window,” he said. “The most we typically see is 10-15 meals per hour at that window, so it won’t be a situation where cars are stacking up.”
Stock presented the plans July 11 to the Murrysville planning commission.
“It’s a pretty substantial remodel along with these additions,” he told the commission. “We’re not just clipping these onto the older building. We’ve been here quite a few years, and we’d like to make it a little nicer for the neighborhood.”
In 2019, Eat’n Park locations in both New Stanton and Homestead underwent remodels and expansions, which added expanded dining and a pickup windows.
The planning commission did not make a recommendation on Eat’n Park’s application at its July 11 meeting.
