I personally know 3 of the GMs at metro area 54s. The company is NOT planning to put anymore stores in the St Louis metro area. 54 is a relatively small company headquartered in the Kansas City area. The only other markets that they have stores are the Dallas metroplex and San Antonio. They do not wish to over expand and water down the product like Applebees and Chillis. Those restaurants are just shells of what they used to be. I would bet my life that 54 will not be coming to Granite.
I would much prefer Granite reach out to the owners of Clean Eatz in Edwardsville. Granite has way too many fast food GMO laden death traps.