TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As thousands of college students return to Tallahassee ahead of the fall semester, businesses near campus are gearing up for the annual boost that comes with move-in season.<\/p>\n
At OG Subs on College Avenue, owner Markus Gielarowski said the summer months bring a steady local crowd, but business picks up when students return.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously with the influx of college students coming back, it definitely helps with the business. Summer time, we here at OG Subs, we still have a really good local following for lunch,\u201d Gielarowski said.<\/p>\n
Move-in season also brings students\u2019 families into nearby restaurants and shops, creating opportunities for businesses to turn first-time visitors into repeat customers throughout the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s a chance to really meet a lot of the parents, the brothers and sisters, as well as the new residents that are coming here for school. It\u2019s a really impactful thing for when they come back, for parents\u2019 weekend and stuff like that and also just for future sales as they\u2019re enjoying their college years,\u201d Gielarowski said.<\/p>\n
Gielarowski said OG Subs\u2019 location helps keep it in the middle of Tallahassee\u2019s college traffic, with fraternities, bars and major institutions nearby.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have about seven fraternities on our road as well. We have about three bars and the Capitol is right up the hill and FSU and FAMU are within very short distance. So we\u2019re very centrally located, which has been advantageous throughout all 10 years of our business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
With students moving back in now, businesses like OG Subs are preparing for the return of the school-year crowd.<\/p>\n
Classes begin Monday, Aug. 24, for both Florida State University and Florida A&M University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As thousands of college students return to Tallahassee ahead of the fall semester, businesses near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-377822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}