A-Ville Diner closes in Andersonville
The A-Ville Diner on Andersonville Highway has closed, after being open less than 10 months. It previously was the location of Pizza Plus. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
The restaurant, which had been open only for breakfast and lunch, opened March 14 in the space of the former Pizza Plus restaurant, offering breakfast foods, as well as burgers, sandwiches, daily plate-lunch specials, ice cream and Hunt Brothers pizza.
Teresa Bruce, who owned the restaurant with her husband, Bruce, told The Courier News on Friday that they “wanted to retire,” and decided to close the business.
The Bruces were the longtime owners of the Andersonville BP gas station and convenience store, which they sold last year.
After that, they bought the Pizza Plus building, across the street from the convenience store, at 3605 Andersonville Highway, with plans to open the diner there.
Teresa Bruce said they are looking for a tenant for the building, or might end up selling it.
The diner still has the same drive-up window on the west side of the building that Pizza Plus used for takeout orders, Bruce said.
But unlike Pizza Plus, the diner did not offer delivery.
Both of the Bruces said they decided to sell their convenience store last year because they had been in that business for the past 45 years, and needed a less-stressful life.
They said at the time that they believed the diner would be less work that the store was.
Teresa Bruce said they might try their hand selling real estate next.
Pizza Plus lost its lease when the Bruces bought the property, and the owners decided not to try to find another location in this area. The building was sold to the Bruces Dec. 7, 2023, for $365,000, according to online county property records.
A spokeswoman for the Blountville-based Pizza Plus said at the time that it would not re-open in another location in this area. She said the Andersonville location was the furthest of its 56 stores from its home base, and that the company did not want another store that far away.
