

Wednesday the Dixie Cafe will offer free chocolate cake squares. Diners can visit the Old Country Store’s Facebook page to claim special discounts.

Tuesday will be social media day at the cafe. The promotion is limited to one per person, however, and is served from 6:30-9 a.m. To celebrate the new menu, the Dixie Cafe will be providing free breakfast sandwiches, with your choice of meat, egg, and cheese on a biscuit. The Dixie Cafe’s new breakfast menu starts serving on Thursday. and will include popular items such as traditional breakfast favorites from the Old Country Store’s buffet, breakfast sandwiches, a la carte items, and breakfast platters. The new menu will be served from 6:30-10:30 a.m. In honor of the grand opening, Dixie Cafe will be celebrating throughout the week with menu specials, including the launching of a new breakfast menu. What had been “Old Country Store To Go” has been given a serious makeover, with new menus, additional seating, new lighting, flat-screen TVs, and a new stage. In a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, they officially announced the grand opening of the newly designed Old Country Store’s Dixie Cafe Take-Out or Dine-In at Casey Jones Village. So we decided that since the sign was getting a new life, we would give part of our store new life as well.” “It’s over 12 feet tall, and it’s such a cool old sign and we decided we had to use it somehow. Clark Shaw, the sign was the perfect addition to an already rich collection of history at Casey Jones Village. The sign had originally sat prominently over the main entrance to the Dixie Cafe, a staple in the Selmer community for over 50 years before it closed in the 1990s. “So I took a closer look and it was this big wonderful retro sign from the ‘40s, and nowadays classic Americana like that can be hard to find so I told my husband about it and eventually we brought it home.” “I had been riding through Selmer when I looked over to my right and saw what looked like a sign just lying in the dirt,” Juanita Shaw recalled. Enjoying the spring air as she rolled through the town, her joyride would suddenly turn into an exciting opportunity. It was pure happenstance that took Juanita Shaw through Selmer on a joyride through the countryside in 2010.
