One more option is being added to Lincoln Avenue for residents to decide of where they would like to eat.

A combined restaurant of KFC and A&W menus is currently under construction near Wal-Mart across from Murphy USA service station on Lincoln Avenue.

“It adds a little bit to the city,” City Manager Alan Probst said. “It’s a welcomed addition. Anything that enhances the city is good.”

The construction for the new restaurant began about two weeks ago and Probst said the company has quoted two months for the work to be complete.

The company building the KFC and A&W is Bartlett Management Services of Savoy, where they have also built the same combined restaurant. The company is also planning to build a KFC and A&W restaurant in the Bloomington-Normal area, said Cindy Titus, executive director of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce.

The Savoy KFC and A&W was the first combination of the restaurants for Bartlett Management Services but the company owns 45 different restaurants in the Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin region, manager Josh Draughon, said.

Draughon said the Charleston restaurant is expected to open for business in mid-January.

So far, the Savoy restaurant is a success since its opening August 8 and is number two or three in success for all the company’s restaurants. But, Draughon said KFC remains the popular choice, taking in 70 percent of business.

“We’re doing great,” Draughon said. “We get tons of people in. We’re obviously doing something right.”

That area, Probst said, is intended to be developed by individual developers that include an upscale apartment complex for students and a strip mall.

“(KFC and A&W) is just kind of the start of it,” he said.

Titus also said that there are more businesses planned for the same area but could not elaborate on which businesses in particular.

“Eventually that would be something we could look forward to,” she said.

The city is also looking to bring a 24-hour restaurant to Charleston, Probst said, but no plans have been made yet.