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Weed-themed restaurant Cheba Hut opens Sept. 21 in Dallas

Texans, we know what you’re thinking: What do you eat at a marijuana-themed restaurant?

Sub shop Cheba Hut is all about getting “toasted.” The first one in Dallas opens Sept. 21 in Deep Ellum, at 2808 Main St.

Texans, we know what you're thinking. What's a marijuana-themed restaurant? This isn't Colorado.

Stoners are the target audience at the fast-casual sandwich shop: When customers pick the size of their sandwich, a small is called a "nug." The medium, an 8-incher, is a "pinner." The large 12-inch sandwich is a "blunt." Drinks are called "cottonmouth cures," chips are "munchies." The sandwiches have names like Chronic, Dank and The Kind.

Cheba Hut is a weed-themed sub shop. But despite the theme, there's no cannabis in any of...
Cheba Hut is a weed-themed sub shop. But despite the theme, there's no cannabis in any of the products. (Bryan Rowe)

But that's where the weed jokes end. Cheba Hut does not bake cannabis into the bread. There's not even any CBD oil sprinkled on top of the subs.

“It’s just a fun theme that goes along with the counterculture,” says Chance Steed, the Fort Worth-based franchisee and dad of two little kids. He jokes that he’s “friendly to the stoner culture” and that he liked the concept when he visited a Cheba Hut after a snowboarding trip in Steamboat, Colo.

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Cheba Hut has been smokin' since 1998, calling itself "the first marijuana-themed 'joint'." Franchisees are puff, puff, passing it across the U.S., and Cheba Hut now operates restaurants in Oregon, California, Wisconsin and more.

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Franchisees also have plans to open Cheba Huts in San Antonio and Austin.

Steed says his Cheba Hut order is a meatball sub — called The Bomb — with added pepperoni.

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"I was sitting there with my buddy," he says of his first trip to Cheba Hut, eating that meatball sub, "and I said, 'Man, I could open one of these up in Texas'."

Cheba Huts also have a full liquor license.

Steed’s first restaurant will be in Deep Ellum, but he’s scouting in Fort Worth, Arlington and Denton next.

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And the opening date? It was supposed to be 4/20/2020, Steed said back in August 2019, but that date was pushed back.

Original story posted Aug. 15, 2019 and updated on Feb. 4, 2020 and Sept. 10, 2020.

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