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Jimpa's by Catfish Jim

Name: Jimpa's by Catfish Jim
Address: 2420 Cobb Parkway NW, Kennesaw, GA, 30152, US
Telephone: +17705295400
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.2

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Jimpa's by Catfish Jim

Welcome to JimPa's Catfish and Chicken! Visit our menu at www.JimPasCatering.com In 2011, we shifted our focus to catering and JimPa's was established.
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JimPa's Catering developed out of over 20 years of serving diners in and around Smyrna and Kennesaw, first as Uncle Bud's then as Catfish Jim's. Our loyal customers were not thrilled that we closed the restaurant, so we reopened a small take-out location in Kennesaw. In 2015, founder, Jim "JimPa" Schrampfer, passed away from cancer. His wife and son took up the helm and continued the legacy he cre

ated. In 2019, we moved from our little take-out location to the old Huddle House location on the corner of McCollum Parkway and Cobb Parkway. Several months after opening the new, bigger location...Covid hit. While it has not been easy, we have weathered the storm and have big plans for the future. Our specialty is catfish and fried chicken, but also offer shrimp, chicken tenders, country fried steak and more. We hand-bread and cook your meal to order. This allows for the best tasting, freshest food possible. We also make our cole slaw, onion rings, fried pickles, hushpuppies and our sauces from scratch. JimPa's offers full dine-in, take-out, and delivery options, in addition to our catering services. Have a small gathering, but need a lot of food? We can cook up fresh orders and pan them out for pick-up or delivery. Have a group of 50 or more? We will bring our catering truck and cook your food fresh at your location. We do corporate events, topping out parties, weddings, birthdays, reunions, you name it. We put the WOW Effect in catering!

Address

2420 Cobb Parkway NW
Kennesaw, GA
30152

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 8pm
Wednesday	11am - 8pm
Thursday	11am - 8pm
Friday	11am - 9pm
Saturday	11am - 9pm
Sunday	12pm - 8pm

Telephone

+17705295400

Website

http://www.jimpascatering.com/

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Our Story is Growing

We have a long history, especially in Smyrna and Kennesaw. We started out as Uncle Bud’s Catfish, Chicken & Such in Smyrna on South Cobb Drive in the late 1980’s. It was more of a corporate run restaurant chain with 11 location around Georgia and Tennessee with the Smyrna location as the flagship store, all run by Jim “Catfish Jim” Schrampfer. By the 2000’s, the corporate guys had gone and Jim, with a partner, continued to run the Smyrna and Chattanooga locations. In 2005, Jim decided to scale down and closed the large Uncle Bud’s location to open a smaller, cozier version of his own design, thus Catfish Jim’s on Cobb Parkway was born. During this time, we started doing more and more catering on the side. When the lease was up in 2010, Jim decided to close the restaurant for good and only do catering. Jim wanted to rename the new venture so everyone would know that it was different than the restaurant. Several ideas were tossed around until we landed on JimPa’s Catering.

(When Jim became a granddad at 53, he didn’t feel he was old enough to be called a Granddad, Pepaw, or Pops...after some thought, he was soon lovingly called JimPa!)

JimPa’s Catering was an instant hit with our ability to cook fresh catfish and fried chicken on-site and serve it fresh to multiple shifts and job sites, factories and warehouses all over Georgia for customers like Georgia Power, Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Atlanta Falcons and many more. However, all of our loyal fans were devastated that they could no longer get their catfish fix. After overwhelming response, Jim decided to reopen a small take-out location for them in the Spring of 2011 located on Cobb Parkway a few miles north of Catfish Jim’s location. It was only open for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights allowing the fans to get their fix and time for us to do our caterings. Things were going great until Jim’s unexpected passing in August 2015. The fate of JimPa’s Catering was unknown. After much discussion, JimPa’s eldest son, Jason, decided to leave his 14 year career as a Graphic Designer to take over running JimPa’s.

The one new thing Jason was able to bring to JimPa’s was an online presence. Creating and maintaining a new website, Facebook, Google, and Yelp pages, we began to get traction with new customers and reconnecting with old customers that had lost us in the various moves. By late 2018, we realized we were going to need a bigger boat. We found our new home in the old Huddle House on the corner of McCullum Parkway and Cobb Parkway in Kennesaw. We reopened in October 2019 now offering lunch and dinner six days a week in our new, larger location. Now, no one could have predicted the 2020 pandemic, but we have been hanging in there and are still going strong. We aren’t planning on going anywhere and continue to serve our delicious made fresh-to-order Catfish, Fried Chicken, Jumbo Shrimp and Chicken Tenders...and of course our world famous Hushpuppies! SMALL PLACE WITH A BIG TASTE!