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Goody Goody

1119 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL

Tampa's Goody Goody burger and pie shop lasted 75 years on Florida Avenue, closed after a sale in 2005 and is now a parking lot.

📅 1930–2005🏛️ RestaurantDemolished
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The story

The first Goody Goody opened in late 1925 at 1603 Grand Central Avenue, during the land boom. A second shop opened downtown on Florida Avenue on April 3, 1930, and that is the one most people remember. The Stayer family owned the restaurant from 1929 until 1980. Carl Stayer bought about four dozen Emeco Navy chairs in the 1940s, and some were still in use on the last day.

In 1980 accountant Mike Wheeler bought it. Drive-in service ended when he closed it for repairs in 1984. Yvonne Freeman, who had been a carhop there from 1947 to 1949, later ran it and made the secret sauce and the pies. The shop closed on November 30, 2005, after the property sold, and the building was demolished in 2006. Richard Gonzmart bought the name and recipe in 2014 and opened a new Goody Goody in Hyde Park Village.

What's There Now

The lot is a parking lot.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

A scene for the 2004 film The Punisher was filmed inside in 2003.
The burger used a quarter pound of 80/20 beef on a 4-inch bun.
Some of the 1940s Navy chairs were still in use on closing day.

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