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The info I received for the upcoming class in January stated the following:

One hour is given for lunch. There are a limited number of restaurants in Florence so you may consider bringing your lunch. A cafeteria is available for seating; however, DPS will not be serving any meals to CHL Instructor students. Refrigerators and microwaves are not available for use by students.

I'm curious about what others have done. Are there restaurants near enough to get there and back within the hour allowed?

Or perhaps, since I'm there for the LTC Instructor's class, not CHL, can I buy lunch in the cafeteria?

When I took my instructor course I just brought my lunch, the cafeteria didn't have food offered, only coffee...bad coffee...free coffee. I would probably just bring your lunch. On a different note though, there is a little place in Georgetown called "eats on 8th" which had the best lobster Mac and cheese I've ever had, just amazing.

We, the family and I, stayed in a historic old house called the Mattie Rouser house a block from the historic Georgetown square, it was an incredible little place which I'd recommend to anyone here. I love Georgetown.

Surfer

Oh, and definitely not any restaurants near enough to get lunch for sure.

My plan is just to grab a sub the night before and stick it and a frozen ice tea in my cooler. If the in-room frig freezer is big enough to freeze the tea overnight.

There are a couple places a few miles down the road. One place in particular makes a pretty decent sandwich. I don't recall the name of the place, but it is a little Mom & Pop style grocery store with the sandwich shop in the back. Ask the Troopers, they will likely know which one I am talking about.

Erick Drake wrote:There are a couple places a few miles down the road. One place in particular makes a pretty decent sandwich. I don't recall the name of the place, but it is a little Mom & Pop style grocery store with the sandwich shop in the back. Ask the Troopers, they will likely know which one I am talking about.

I was there for a special course last year and we went to that location for lunch. Everyone in there was a DPS Trooper! It pushed is close for time, so the next day several of us brought our own lunch and ate in the cafeteria. The DPS training building at its range in Florence is beautiful and I enjoyed being able to eat, then just relax in the atrium area before going back to class.

Chas.

I've taken several certification courses at the florence DPS location. Lunch is either head toward the highway to Berry Creak and eat at the Subway or Quiznos or go into town and eat at the Florence diner (not many seats, so first dozen or so in get seated and fed, the rest will have to find someplace else for lunch of on a time line). I would not suggest the mexican food place at the edge of town in the little strip mall. Over the course of three separate course with a spread of two years apart, someone failed to take those instructions from each class, and was in the latrine more then in class or on the range Just a coincidence? perhaps, but I'll stick with the sub shop or diner.
EDIT: One other spot is the Andice General store (11 miles from DPS), it does burgers and the like, seats only a few, service is fast, unless busy.. But it is at the edge of a lunch hour and anything goes wrong your going to be late.

E.Marquez wrote:...I would not suggest the mexican food place at the edge of town in the little strip mall...

Is it a Chipotle?

The Florence diner is great! Chicken fried steak or hamburger steak. Good little BBQ joint and a Mexican joint out of 195. Both others on the street considered downtown!!

ELB wrote:

E.Marquez wrote:...I would not suggest the mexican food place at the edge of town in the little strip mall...

Is it a Chipotle?

No Mano's
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mano' ... cf52746b1a

Go over to Andice. Best burgers in the state.

Overthehill wrote:Go over to Andice. Best burgers in the state.

Sad to say that Andice General Store is now legally posted 30.06 and 30.07. (As of Sat 2/7/16)

Hard to believe this place would want to alienate its very rural customers, but they are certainly working on it.