{"id":310922,"date":"2026-10-21T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310922\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:01:07","slug":"whitehall-sandwich-shop-owner-to-face-whitehall-zoning-hearing-board-after-being-told-to-shut-down-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310922\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehall sandwich shop owner to face Whitehall Zoning Hearing Board after being told to shut down | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHALL TWP, Pa. &#8211; The owner of a popular sandwich shop in Lehigh County is demanding answers from officials who told him to shut down not long after opening.<\/p>\n<p>Chade Sankari, who owns SMP Steaks on Schadt Avenue in Whitehall Township, says he&#8217;ll be at the Zoning Hearing Board meeting tonight to make his case heard.<\/p>\n<p>He says he was told he now needs a restaurant permit after all his other permits for the shop were approved, and if he doesn&#8217;t get one, he&#8217;ll be forced to close.<\/p>\n<p>69 News has reached out to zoning officials, but has not heard back.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night&#8217;s meeting starts at 7 p.m. and is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP, Pa. &#8211; The owner of a popular sandwich shop in Lehigh County is demanding answers from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,127230,127228,433,127231,127229,93188,1654,108761],"class_list":["post-310922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business-shutdown","tag-chade-sankari","tag-lehigh-county","tag-permit-approval","tag-restaurant-permit","tag-smp-steaks","tag-whitehall-township","tag-zoning-hearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}