For the last three months, Frumpy Joe’s Food and Drink has been closed to the public.

Now, Ric and Kimberly Mount are planning to reopen the doors of this longtime Jonesburg establishment.

The Mounts are the new owners of Frumpy Joe’s, located at 105 East Booneslick Road. They hope to get the restaurant back in business by the first week of October. It will have 10 employees.

“We’re getting there,” Ric said. “We’re chomping at the bit. I’m ready to go. I want to cook. I want to serve great food.”

Frumpy Joe’s closed in late June after the family of late owner Mike Hochhalter decided not to stay in business. Hochhalter passed away in January.

Ric said Jonesburg residents were excited when they found out that he and his wife bought Frumpy Joe’s.

“The people of Jonesburg are good people,” Ric said. “We had one of the customers who Kimberly waited on come in the back door. He walked around the corner and he looked at both of us and said, ‘I just had to see if the rumor was true that you guys bought this place.’”

Ric and Kimberly took over a restaurant that was first opened in 1990 and is well-known for its fried chicken, roast beef and sirloin steak. They have been renovating the place ever since they bought it.

“It’s very hard work,” Ric said. “This is our last hurrah.”

When the restaurant reopens, the Mounts plan to put together a dinner menu that will include three different steaks, pasta and seafood. Fried chicken will still be served on Thursday nights.

“We wanted to offer things a little bit different than most places because that’s our thing,” Kimberly Mount said. “We like to cook. I like to bake, while he likes to cook. We always cook for ourselves. It’s hard to go out and find a place that has good food, when you might as well make it yourself at home because you’re going to be happy.”

Also, the restaurant will be open on Sundays from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. to serve breakfast and unlimited lunch. It will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

“There is no place to go in this town because the Warehouse (Bar and Grill) is closed on Sundays,” Ric said. “Every Sunday we’ve been in here working (on the renovation), everything is closed, so why can we capitalize on it? I know they’ll come out to eat breakfast.”

Kimberly said the restaurant will also have a community table that will sit up to 15 patrons so they can have conversations and get to know one another.

“I thought that would be a cool thing to have instead of always putting tables together,” Kimberly said.

The Mounts have been married for 35 years. They were employees at Frumpy Joe’s several years ago. They also owned a restaurant called Rikerly’s Place in Wentzville.

“I grew up in Missouri,” Kimberly said. “We met when he got transferred out of Brinker’s Restaurant and Pub at Mid-Rivers Mall when it first opened up. I had applied there and I ended up being the day crew leader and trainer. There were so many issues in the kitchen that they sent him out from the Illinois location. That’s how we met. I basically spent all of my life growing up in St. Peters, Missouri.”