The site of a former Columbia Hooters has a new business coming. What to know
Where once there were Buffalo wings and ice cold draft beer, now there will be a place to fill up you gas tank.
Murphy USA, the gas station and convenience store chain with locations across the U.S., is building a new store at 7711 Two Notch Road in Columbia. That’s on the property that formerly was long home to a Hooters restaurant. The Hooters location on Two Notch closed in June 2024.
The Hooters building that was on the Two Notch Road site has been demolished. Construction is well underway for the Murphy USA, though an opening date has not been publicly announced. The roadside sign for the Hooters, a last vestige of the restaurant that formerly was there, was still standing along Two Notch Road as of Sunday afternoon.
The coming Murphy USA will be located on a high-traffic commercial corridor. Restaurants including Chili’s, Fazoli’s, Chick-fil-A and IHOP are near the property, and it sits just in front of a Home Depot store. It’s just north of Interstate 20 and just south of Interstate 77. Roughly 31,000 cars per day travel down that stretch of Two Notch, per state Department of Transportation stats.
There are about 1,600 Murphy USA convenience stores across the U.S. according to data website ScrapeHero, including a host of locations in the Midlands.
Hooters no longer has a presence in Columbia. Aside from the Two Notch closure in 2024, the location at 5195 Fernandina Road shut its doors for good in June of this year.
This story was originally published July 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM.
