LongHorn opens in Palatka

  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse Managing Partner Rob Hull, center, cheers immediately after doing the honors at the restaurant's rope-cutting ceremony Monday afternoon.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse Managing Partner Rob Hull, center, cheers immediately after doing the honors at the restaurant's rope-cutting ceremony Monday afternoon.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse officials and local business and government leaders stand outside the restaurant before the rope-cutting ceremony begins.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse officials and local business and government leaders stand outside the restaurant before the rope-cutting ceremony begins.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse employees participate in a call-and-response chant before officially opening the restaurant Monday afternoon.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse employees participate in a call-and-response chant before officially opening the restaurant Monday afternoon.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse Managing Partner Rob Hull, right, passes a ceremonial check for $3,734 dollars to Bread of Life soup kitchen officials to represent the real-life donation the company made.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse Managing Partner Rob Hull, right, passes a ceremonial check for $3,734 dollars to Bread of Life soup kitchen officials to represent the real-life donation the company made.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Members of the Palatka City Commission cut the official first steak LongHorn served.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Members of the Palatka City Commission cut the official first steak LongHorn served.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Palatka City Commissioner Justin Campbell takes the first bite of the first steak the Palatka location served.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Palatka City Commissioner Justin Campbell takes the first bite of the first steak the Palatka location served.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Director of Operations Joe Jones, second from right, talks about the opening of the Palatka location.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Director of Operations Joe Jones, second from right, talks about the opening of the Palatka location.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Palatka Mayor Robbi Correa, center, addresses the crowd during the rope-cutting ceremony for LongHorn SteakHouse on Monday.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Palatka Mayor Robbi Correa, center, addresses the crowd during the rope-cutting ceremony for LongHorn SteakHouse on Monday.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Crescent City Mayor Michele Myers selects a variety of appetizers after the rope-cutting portion of the ceremony was finished.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – Crescent City Mayor Michele Myers selects a variety of appetizers after the rope-cutting portion of the ceremony was finished.
  • BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse employees make their way inside the restaurant about 20 minutes before it officially opened to the public at 3 p.m. Monday.
    BRANDON D. OLIVER/Palatka Daily News – LongHorn Steakhouse employees make their way inside the restaurant about 20 minutes before it officially opened to the public at 3 p.m. Monday.

Business and government leaders in Putnam County celebrated the opening of LongHorn Steakhouse, 501 State Road 19 in Palatka, on Monday afternoon. The restaurant opened at 3 p.m., but officials participated in a rope-cutting ceremony that started an hour earlier.

During the ceremony, the company donated money to the Bread of Life soup kitchen, a city commissioner took the first bite of the location's first official steak and attendees got a taste of other items that are being sold at LongHorn in Palatka.

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