Also recipient of our “didn’t even know that restaurant existed” award
In what we’re calling the first casualty of the “Atlanta Burger Craze,” Fuze Burger on Ponce appears closed.
Located at 265 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE, calls to the burger joint go unanswered during normal business hours and a visit to the space show no signs of an operating business. Their Facebook was last updated on August of last year.
Reader Ken Killmeany wrote in concerned they had closed after the restaurant “abruptly canceled all their weekly poker nights.”
We can’t say we’re surprised.
Lets look at the storm of new burger restaurants the “Atlanta Burger Craze” has thrown our way: FLIP Burger, Farm Burger, YEAH! Burger, EVOS, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Five Napkin Burger, and Grindhouse to name a few.
This begs the question: what’s the threshold for burger concepts in Atlanta? Has survival of the fittest beef begun?
Considering the number of new burger concepts that have opened in Atlanta and the surrounding metro area within the last year alone (and many more on the way), it’s obvious this closure is just the beginning.
Only so much can fit between two buns. May the best beef win.
Fuze Burger
265 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
