Another LowBrow barbecue joint is coming soon in North Naples

Industrial-The BBQ Shop has the meat and all the side dishes. Courtesy Industry-The BBQ Shop TIM ATEN / NAPLES FLORIDA WEEKLY

The folks behind LowBrow Pizza & Beer are planning a one-stop barbeque shop in a business park on Old 41 Road in North Naples.

Barely a year since Chef Chris Jones and Industry Beer & Barbecue founded on the Bayfront of Naples, the same team signed a lease with plans to build on their smacking success with Industry – The BBQ Shop in the industrial park on Collier Center Way , about a mile south of the Collier-Lee county line. “We’re going to be selling the same goods that we make and cook,” said Jones. “Everything we use for grilling and more.”

Not only will it be the North Naples version of the Industry Grill Restaurant and a take away lunch or dinner spot, but there will also be a retail store similar to Jimmy P’s Butcher Shop, but instead geared towards barbecue only. Home grill chefs can buy the same racks of ribs, pork butts, homemade sausages, chicken, pork belly, sauces, rubs and condiments used by Industry Beer & Barbecue, as well as fuel, wood, charcoal, pellet pellet, pits, what Anyway, said Mr. Jones. Backyard smokers can even advance from the pits to pit boss status, with professional guidance on authentic stick-burning grilling and more through The BBQ Shop’s two-day course.

Chef Chris Jones plans to expand his local restaurant empire later this month to include Industry-The BBQ Shop in north Naples. COURTESY INDUSTRY-THE BBQ SHOP

“We’re going to go over everything we do to make our barbecue so you can do it at home,” said Mr. Jones. Those who aren’t that resourceful can buy an entire cooked brisket there or hire a pit crew to organize an event and bring you the barbecue.

The new location will also serve as a commercial kitchen and central catering operation for the growth of the local company’s three existing restaurants: LowBrow in East Naples, Industry Beer & Barbecue in Naples and Industry Pizza & Slice Shop in North Naples. First of all, they share the kitchen space with another catering kitchen. Their ghost kitchen will first open later this month for takeaway and delivery cooking. The store is slated to open in April.

The Industry Pizza & Slice Shop recently added at least 20 outdoor seating by expanding into a landscaped area in front of the restaurant on Pine Ridge Road.

“It’s going to be a big game changer for sure,” said Mr. Jones, who knows all the numbers and knows that the demand for his new business is there. He saw firsthand how LowBrow takeaway orders rose from 10-12% before the pandemic to 40-45% now. “We did a good job at LowBrow,” he said. “We now have loyal customers for it.”

In addition to expanding locally, Mr. Jones recently renovated Industry Pizza on Pine Ridge Road. The restaurant added more than 20 outdoor seating by expanding it into a landscaped area in front of the eatery.

Hut goes hiking

Q: Do you have any information about the old Pizza Hut in East Naples? Work is going on there. – Ken French, East Naples

ON: With national mega-franchisee NPC International Inc. abandoning the area’s last freestanding Pizza Hut in September, a new tenant has yet to rent or buy the local building that has been home to the world’s largest chain of pizzerias for more than 40 years.

In Logan Landings, construction work is progressing on an outdoor parcel duplex for the First Watch daytime café and an office for the title company TIM ATEN / NAPLES FLORIDA WEEKLY

The Kansas-based NPC declared bankruptcy last summer and turned down its local lease at 3010 Tamiami Trail E. in late November, said Rainer Filthaut, broker at IRC International Realty Corp. in Naples.

“The building is currently empty. The activity you see is cleaning the parking lot, landscaping and building, ”said Mr Filthaut.

IRC, which owns the 2,520-square-foot building between Bayshore Drive and Airport-Pulling Road, plans to put it on the market for rent or sale soon, he said.

In January, Pizzeria Napoli on the Bay moved to the other Pizza Hut space NPC area, which was abandoned at Pebblebrooke Center on Collier Boulevard last fall. It’s the sixth location for Napoli, which is set to open its seventh soon in Entrada, a newly developed commercial park on the northeast corner of Bonita Beach Road and Old 41 Road in Bonita Springs, said Napoli owner Tony Brito.

Tide Cleaners is slated to open this summer along Immokalee Road at Logan Landings in north Naples. TIM ATEN / NAPLES FLORIDA WEEKLY

Another classic Pizza Hut location that was abandoned in downtown Naples more than a decade ago remains vacant on prime lot off US 41. The iconic red roof in 1973 in 675 Ninth St. N for more than 35 years. In 2013, a restaurateur in Rhode Island suggested converting the former pizzeria into a “clam shack” and adding a deck on the second floor, but the plans didn’t work out.

Logan Landings line-up

The outside sign stands for Tide Cleaners in Logan Landings, but the store is still a few months away from opening in the Sprouts-anchored center on the southeast corner of Immokalee Road and Logan Boulevard in North Naples. National dry cleaning is slated to open in a 2,400-square-foot unit on Immokalee Road in a free-standing outdoor lot that it will share with the existing Naples Modern Dentistry by mid-year.

The longtime Pizza Hut on the East Trail in East Naples is ready for a new tenant. TIM ATEN / NAPLES FLORIDA WEEKLY

“The location will have curb valet parking under a canopy and all of the other services and amenities we offer in other locations, including 24-hour drop-off, pick-up and same-day service,” said Robert Lyons, president from Consolidated Cleaners Inc., the franchisee of Tide Cleaners in South Florida. Consolidated Cleaners operates 13 Tide Cleaners locations, including the Lee and Collier locations in Naples, North Naples, Bonita Springs, Estero and South Fort Myers.

Meanwhile, construction is progressing on another outparcel duplex in Logan Landings that will share a 3,754-square-foot First Watch daytime café and a 1,546-square-foot office owned by the title company. The new building is on the Logan side of the corner water feature, which is also adjacent to the Oak & Stone patio. |

Tim Aten Knows is published weekly in the Naples Florida Weekly. Mr. Aten is Senior Editor of Gulfshore Business Magazine. Email questions to TimAtenKnows@floridaweekly.com. Follow @ TimAtenKnows on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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