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Restaurant Plans to Reopen Just Days After Fire

Wayland Patch 8/2/12: Restaurant Plans to Reopen Just Days After Fire. Just three nights after a fire shut down Coach Grill Restaurant, the Wayland favorite will welcome dinner guests back into the dining room Thursday. A fire in the ventilation system above the cooktop Monday night left behind a few days worth of cleanup and repair and an initial damage estimate in excess of $50,000. But recovery went better than expected.

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General Manager: ‘Open Back Up As Quickly As We Can’

Wayland Patch 7/31/12: General Manager: 'Open Back Up As Quickly As We Can'. Coach Grill General Manger Jim Brosseau said staff and others are "working furiously" to ready the restaurant to reopen following a Monday night fire in the ventilation system.

Brosseau said that staff members are busy cleaning the restaurant, which sustained fire, smoke and water damage in places, so that Coach Grill can reopen once the damaged kitchen equipment is replaced.

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Coach Grill Fire Damage Estimate Tops $50,000

Wayland Patch 7/31/12: Coach Grill Fire Damage Estimate Tops $50,000. Wayland's Coach Grill Restaurant could remain closed for some time as several pieces of kitchen equipment are replaced after a fire in the ventilation system Monday night.  A Wayland Fire Department press release said that firefighters responded to a call from the restaurant at about 8:25 p.m. Monday, after restaurant staff pulled the alarm and began trying to evacuate guests from the dining rooms.

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Patrons Evacuated, Firefighter Injured in Coach Grill Fire

Wayland Patch 7/30/12: Patrons Evacuated, Firefighter Injured in Coach Grill Fire. One Wayland firefighter sustained minor injuries responding to a ventilation system fire that emptied the Coach Grill of its dinner guests at about 8:45 Monday night.

Wayland Deputy Fire Chief David Houghton said firefighters arrived to find flames shooting 8 to 10 feet into the sky out of the restaurant's exhaust system on the roof. A grease fire had spread into the exhaust system above the kitchen cooktop.

"The employees here did everything perfectly," Houghton said, explaining that employees had pulled the restaurant's alarm and evacuated guests.

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