Remember the Sonrise Donuts building and its distinctive neon sign on its roof on Route 66 in Springfield, Ill.? The long-closed business now will be the home Monday of a Gibby’s Orbits restaurant, reported the Springfield State Journal-Register.
Jack Gibbons had served mini-doughnuts, corn dogs, lemon shake-ups and other favorites at area county fairs since 1985. He’d been looking for a permanent location, and found it with the Sonrise building.
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The new restaurant — named GIBBY’S ORBITS AT THE SONRISE DONUT SHOP — will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. It may open some weekends for special events. Phone: 306-3454. Address: 1101 S. Ninth St., on historic Route 66.
The eatery, in a glass-walled building constructed in 1956, will be a diner in the style of the 1950s and ’60s. There’s a black-and-white checkerboard floor, the original Formica counter and red-and-chrome swivel stools and tables.
In keeping with the diner theme, the menu will include burgers, fries, grilled cheese, sloppy Joes, Polish sausage, Italian beef, Philly steaks, chilidogs and Chicago-style hot dogs.
Also available are mini doughnuts, corn dogs, deep-fried hot dogs, chili, nachos, taco salad, grilled chicken salad, coffee, tea and eight flavors of shakeups. Breakfast items include eggs, hash browns, toast, bacon and sausage. All prices include sales tax.
It’s good that the Sonrise building will be greeting customers again, and that the new owners are nodding to its history.
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