GameTime Pizza & Subs creates sports bar inside eatery on Andersonville Highway
GameTime Pizza & Subs owner Kenny Price, standing left, talks with customers at his new sports bar in the restaurant in the Anderson Crossing shopping center on Andersonville Highway in Norris. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Owners Kenny Price and his wife, Cindy, who moved to the area from Punta Gorda, Florida, completed construction of the bar area last week, complete with a custom L-shaped knotty pine wood bar that’s 60-by-8 feet long.
Hanging on the wall behind the bar are four large flat-screen TVs – two of them 65 inches and the other two 55 inches.
“We just wanted to create sports bar atmosphere in here, because there wasn’t anything like it in this area,” Kenny Price said last weekend. “We just got it finished Monday.”
That meant the bar area and those big TVs were ready just in time for last weekend’s SEC basketball tournament and the coming NCAA “March Madness” basketball tournament that begins this week.
“We have 14 barstools and five tables, with enough room to seat up to 30 people,” Price said.
The bar serves only beer – no wine or mixed drinks – and the restaurant also offers its regular full menu of pizza, subs, Italian dishes, chicken wings and salads, he said.
To make sure GameTime chose the right beer varieties to appease the local crowd, the Prices put out a request on GameTime’s Facebook page for people to suggest what beers they would like to see on tap at the new bar.
“We have eight ones on tap now, along with a variety of bottled beers for our customers,” Kenny Price said.
The beers on tap include Yee-Haw Dunkel, Angry Orchard, Miller Lite, Coors Light, SweetWater IPA, Michelob Ultra, Yuengling and Bud Light. There are 13 bottled beers and seltzers available.
The restaurant and sports bar are open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday from noon until 8 p.m., Price said.
The highly polished wood for the bar came from Wisconsin, and the bar area was built by A New Look Renovations in Oak Ridge, he said.
GameTime plans to order the full NFL game package for the televisions when football season opens again this fall, Price said.
The Prices opened GameTime in late 2019 as a dine-in restaurant replacing a formerly takeout-only pizza shop that was part of the Tobacco Depot. They dumped the tobacco side of the business, installed six tables and three TVs, and called it GameTime Pizza & Subs.
Both Prices have a background in the pizza business, with Kenny Price a former manager at Domino’s and Papa John’s stores, and Cindy Price a former employee at Domino’s and Pizza Hut outlets.