There is a lot of buzz around town about the new restaurants coming to Hartselle in the new Dollar Tree shopping center.

I am one of those excited people watching the progress and anticipating their openings.

I’m sure the new pizza and Asian restaurants will eventually get old to me just as most other restaurants in Hartselle have, but I am looking forward to the few months where I will not have a hard time making up my mind on where to eat.

Hartselle has some quality restaurants, especially our home-owned ones, but a little  more variety would be wonderful. I am not a very decisive person to begin with, but we constantly battle over who has to pick dinner in our house.

Soon, I will have a few more choices, which I am not-so-patiently anticipating. I have to refrain myself from not audibly wishing for the restaurants to be open immediately every time I pass them on Highway 31.

Hopefully, these restaurants will thrive in our town and be an encouragement to other similar restaurants or would-be local restaurant owners.

Maybe one day Hartselle will have a Panera, Steak n’ Shake, Arby’s, Wendy’s, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Zoe’s and more.

I also hope Hartselle gets plenty more family-owned restaurants to diversify Hartselle’s food options.

It would also be nice if Hartselle had more food options open later besides fast food chains. I have never run a business, and I know this is a business move that keeps them open to the public, but I, like many people my age, generally eat later.

I’m sure I’m not the only one with these high hopes.

Joy Haynes is a staff writer for the Hartselle Enquirer.