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1 Friday, August 31, 2007 | The Red & Black
Mellow Mushroom feasts on
satisfaction with new location
By RACHEL WEBSTER
The Red & Black
Mellow Mushroom
pizza the Gourmet
White variety, specifically
changed Athens’ new
est restaurant co-owner
Grady Landis’ life.
With olive oil and garlic
sauce instead of marinara,
the pie features provolo
ne, mozzarella and feta
cheeses, sun-dried toma
toes, onions and fresh
tomatoes.
"It’s really good,” said
Landis. “That pizza hon
estly got me to like toma
toes. I ; didn’t eat tomatoes
until two years ago. That
is a true story.”
A Georgia Southern
graduate, Landis said he
got tired of wearing a tie
every day while working
for the Atlanta Thrashers.
He bought a Mellow
Mushroom franchise with
his father and stepmother,
threw on a baseball cap
and reintroduced Kosmic
Karma pizza into the lives
of Athenians.
The new location
opened its doors Aug. 6
and now is welcoming
customers into a dining
room with Georgia
inspired mushroom mem
orabilia and a bar boast
ing 40 beers on tap.
Bright yellow walls, a
shiny red bar and rows of
dark wooden booths
dominate the restaurant’s
decor.
Landis said the desired
effect was to look “like a
restaurant that people
would walk into and feel
like, ‘Wow I’ve never seen
anything like this. This is
different, this is really
cool.’ But still inviting,
too.”
The new co-owners
bought the franchise
after the last owner failed
to renew and the differ
ence is apparent in the
look of the 6500-square
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MELLOW
MUSHROOM
Where: 320 E. Clayton St.
Phone: (706) 613-0892
Take out or dine in available.
Hours: Kitchen open 11 a.m.
to 11 p.m., full bar open until
2 a.m.
foot restaurant.
“It’s a better Mellow
Mushroom feel than what
the other place used to
be,” said Justin Sales, a
senior from Danielsville.
“The last place didn’t
have the big statues. You
couldn’t see all the beers
on the wall.”
The bar has more beers
on tap than any other
Athens location. All
Sweetwater and Terrapin
varieties are available, as
well as Woodchuck ciders,
a Blue Moon seasonal
beer and old favorites
such as Bud Light.
“We didn’t want to have
15 run-of-the-mill gener
ics,” said Landis. “We
pretty much have some
thing for everybody. We
tried to really get a good
mix.”
The variety translates
to the menu as well, since
Mellow Mushroom serves
not only pizza but also
“Monumental Hoagies”
and “Scrumptious
Salads.”
The menu features
tempeh and tofu options
right alongside steak and
cheese hoagies.
There are no fryers in
any Mellow Mushroom
locations and all the
cheese is low fat, Landis
said.
“You can basically
come here and eat as
healthy as you could
anywhere,” said Landis.
“If you want to be bad,
you can come here and
eat a pizza with every
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meat on the menu. It’s
your choice.”
Choice is what attract
ed the Landis family to
the franchise.
“You’ll never walk into
two Mellow Mushrooms
and have them be the
same,” Grady Landis said.
In this location, a
bright mural reflects
Athens and University
football legends such as
Vince Dooley and Hines
Ward.
Daily drink specials are
on the way, and Landis
said there are special
menu items in the works
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Tuesday, September 4th
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for Athens patrons.
“When you’re here all
day and you start messing
around, you come up with
some pretty crazy ideas,
like crushing Doritos and
putting it on a pizza,” said
Landis.
“There’s a lot of stuff
you can do.”
Whatever pizza innova
tions surface in the future
will only add to customer
Sales’ enjoyment of the
space —as long as the
statues stay.
“I like the football play
er mushroom guys on top
of the bar,” he said.
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Bulldog endures
injury, anticipates
future home games
By ADAM LIPPER
The Red & Black
Danielle Abelson’s deci
sion to join the Georgia
women’s soccer team was
one of the catalysts that
turned Georgia into a rep
utable program.
When Abelson verbally
committed to Georgia in
2005, her junior year at
Woodward Academy, the
Bulldogs were coming off a
4-9-5 season.
After the down year,
Patrick Baker, the 2003
National Coach of the Year
at Florida State, became
Georgia’s head coach.
Abelson, who had want
ed to play at FSU for Baker,
decided to follow him and
take a chance on the devel
oping program, becoming
the first commitment for
the 2006 class. She was also
the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution’s 2006 South
Metro Player of the Year
and a top-100 recruit.
Her decision sparked a
No. 8 recruiting class.
“What she did, she made
other players from the ‘O7
and ‘OB recruiting classes
interested in Georgia,”
Baker said.
“Because of Dani, we
were able to attract recruits
throughout Georgia. It was
a very encouraging com
mitment and one that I’ll
never forget. I’ll never
underestimate her commit
ment. You’ve got to get one
to take the step of faith.”
Abelson did and others
followed. But when she
arrived at Georgia in 2006,
the others played and
Abelson watched.
She had to take a medi
cal redshirt after suffering
from osteochondritis disse
cans lesion in her right
ankle. The condition
caused a fraction of her
talus bone to separate and
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the University would
receive all seven home
game tickets. Advanced
Placement, International
Baccalaureate and transfer
credits were not applicable,
he said.
However, Lawrence
wrote in an e-mail that the
Ticket Office’s records
show Turner has 28 cumu
lative hours, but only 19
were earned ’ at the
University.
Turner received a split
package of three tickets,
for the Oklahoma State,
Ole Miss and Auburn
games.
Packages were split into
groups of three and four,
Lawrence said, each includ
ing two conference games.
Oklahoma State tickets
become deprived of blood.
Abelson injured the
ankle her sophomore year
of high school. She had
X-rays taken, but they were
negative. Playing on the
ankle for two years wors
ened the injury.
When she came to
Georgia, she expected to
play. Instead, the injury
was discovered.
On July 20, Abelson
underwent surgery in
Atlanta. For an hour, doc
tors drilled holes into her
talus bone, allowing blood
to recirculate and a hew
bone to grow in.
“I was upset about hav
ing to do it, but I wasn’t
nervous,” said Abelson.
“I went in with wanting
to get it done because the
quicker I got it over, the
quicker I stepped back on
the field.”
Doctors told her it
would take a full year to
recover. She wore a cast for
two weeks and a boot for
six. During rehab, she used
a Thera-Band for strength
conditioning and ran aqua
sprints for stability.
Now thirteen months
later, Abelson feels she is
around 90 percent. She
injured her foot in an exhi
bition match against
Clemson Saturday and is
listed as a game-time deci
sion for tonight’s home
opener against Texas Tech.
“Playing Saturday
against Clemson was just a
preview,” said Abelson,
“but it’s nothing like play
ing on your home field,
which I’ve been wanting to
experience.”
Regardless of how she
plays, she’s helped trans
form Georgia into a recog
nized soccer program. But
if Abelson plays with the
same determination that
she handled last year with,
she’ll do just fine.
went into the packages of
three, while tickets for the
games versus Troy and
Western Carolina went into
the packages of four.
When asked if she would
take the issue up with the
Athletic Association,
Turner said, “No, because
they don’t care. I’ve just
figured out that the
Athletic Association just
wants to make money, and
they’re making it either
way. It doesn’t matter who
they give the tickets to.”
But Lawrence said the
Ticket Office is always
open to suggestions from
students.
“We can come up with
a policy or a process
that’s good for 95 percent
of the students, but it’s
never going to work for
everyone.”
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