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NFA Burger will open Thursday in Alpharetta
A second, full-service location of NFA Burger will open Thursday in Alpharetta’s popular Avalon development.
NFA Burger gained viral fame after opening its first counter-service restaurant in a Dunwoody gas station in 2019, racking up plaudits for founder Billy Kramer’s simple but obsessively constructed double cheeseburger. Kramer also brought his formula to Truist Park for the beginning of the Atlanta Braves’ season, but pulled out of the ballpark’s Outfield Market food hall after a couple of weeks.
In April, Kramer told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that managing the Outfield Market stall and simultaneously working to open the full-service location had become untenable. Kramer said the timeline had been unexpectedly advanced for the soon-to-open Avalon NFA Burger and he pulled out of Truist Park because he was able to arrange for Grindhouse Killer Burgers to take over his stall.
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The new NFA Burger in Avalon is a departure from the original bare-bones, 100-square-foot space inside the Chevron gas station. Orders will still be placed at a counter, but there will be indoor and outdoor seating, a bar, TVs and an exterior window for takeout orders…