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Texas State student Griffin Fisher reads a notice posted outside Alvin\u00a0Ords in San Marcos on April 14, 2026, stating the restaurant is temporarily closed for an “unknown period of time” due to unforeseen circumstances.<\/p>\n
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A notice posted outside Alvin Ord’s in San Marcos on April 14, 2026, announces the restaurant\u2019s temporary closure for an “unknown period of time” due to unforeseen circumstances.<\/p>\n
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“It’s taken us some months, but here we are,” Martin said. “We have brand new employees. We have a brand new point-of-sale system. We tried to upgrade. We kept the things customers said they wanted. We haven’t even changed our prices.”<\/p>\n
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Customers returning to the restaurant will find familiar touches that have made Alvin Ord’s a San Marcos institution for decades, including the original booths, classic sandwich board and longtime menu favorites.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t change anything,” Martin said. “Same old prices, same old menu board.”<\/p>\n
Behind the scenes, however, the restaurant has undergone significant improvements, including fresh paint, new wallpaper, deep cleaning and upgrades to the kitchen.<\/p>\n
“We’ve cleaned out, we’ve done some beautiful wallpapering. Of course painted and cleaned, and it looks so much better,” Martin said. “We’ve got a whole new line back there.”<\/p>\n
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The exterior of Alvin Ord’s sandwich shop\u00a0in San Marcos, Texas, as seen on April 14, 2026, after the longtime sandwich shop announced a temporary shutdown.<\/p>\n
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Customers enjoy a weekday lunch at Alvin Ord’s in San Marcos.<\/p>\n
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The restaurant has not announced a grand opening date, and Martin said the business is intentionally taking a cautious approach before expanding hours.<\/p>\n
An unexpected oven failure during the first days of the soft opening created longer-than-expected wait times, and ownership wants to avoid disappointing customers before the operation is fully staffed.<\/p>\n
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“I don’t want people to have to wait that long,” Martin said. “We’re almost fully staffed. We’re still training.”<\/p>\n
The reopening marks a new chapter for the 40-year-old San Marcos staple.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Steve Martin, a minority owner who was at the center of the workplace allegations earlier this year, remains part of the business but no longer has any role in its day-to-day operations, Iris Martin said. She said leadership is being handed to her daughter and son-in-law, who recently relocated from Canada to take over the family restaurant while the transition is completed.<\/p>\n
She described the transition as similar to other longtime family businesses in Central Texas passing from one generation to the next.<\/p>\n
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“It’s still a family business. It’s always going to be in the family,” Iris said. “A new generation is in.”<\/p>\n
Although Alvin Ord’s has yet to announce when normal operations will resume, Iris said the goal remains unchanged and looks forward to restoring a restaurant that generations of Texas State students and San Marcos residents have made part of their traditions.<\/p>\n
“I know San Marcos loves Alvin Ord’s,” she said. “We’re going to be back, and it’s going to be fine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The Salvation,” a fan-favorite at Alvin Ord’s, layers ham, salami, cheddar, mozzarella, parmesan, lettuce, tomato, onion and mustard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1112,1113,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-402845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysafood","tag-mysahillcountry","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}