New bar in Columbus hopes customers become ‘super regulars.’ See inside
The owners behind Maltitude, Nonic and Ray’s Quick Stop have opened their latest venture, a bar called Super Regular, 1239 Broadway in Columbus, this past month.
The bar’s opening was announced in March on Nonic’s Facebook page, and its grand opening was May 30. Super Regular is described as a “regular old neighborhood bar” with “cold beer, cocktails and good times,” according to the owners in a social media post.
Super Regular owners Miles Greathouse and Chad Scrimpshire spoke with the Ledger-Enquirer about the legacy of the building and the process of creating a neighborhood bar.
Super Regular: Continuing the legacy of 1239 Broadway
Greathouse and Scrimpshire, along with their business partners Robert Battle and Garrett Lawrence, knew they had to do something with their empty building on Broadway.
They’ve had the building since 2015, and it was the initial location of Nonic Restaurant.
As they worked on renovations, Greathouse learned the building had an unexpected personal tie: His grandfather told him that he bought his grandmother’s engagement ring in the same building in the 1950s.
“We’ve got a long history, even more than the last 10 years,” Greathouse said.
The owners vacated the building in 2022 to move to a new location in Highside Market. Scrimpshire said their other businesses helped pay the rent, but it was unsustainable for the long term.
“We didn’t want to do a quick flip, and make it feel lazy and uninspired,” Scrimpshire said.
The owner group visited the empty space every day for five months, brainstorming ideas about what to do with the space. Then the other owners came in and found Battle had put up two walls in the space.
“We were like, ‘Oh, well, I guess we’re going,’” Scrimpshire said. “We did the build-out ourselves, and the little design elements just came as it went.”
The idea for Super Regular came organically, Scrimpshire and Greathouse said, with the concept of the space coming together from daily conversations. They decided to create a bar because it felt the most familiar.
“So, why a bar? It’s what we know,” Scrimpshire said. “It’s what we’re best at.”
Details that help Super Regular feel like a ‘neighborhood bar’
Greathouse came up with the name for the new bar while visiting his fiancee’s hometown in Detroit, Michigan. He was at a similarly inspired bar, Last Chance Saloon, and kept walking past a sign with the phrase “Super Regular.” He started incorporating the phrase around the branding for his ownership group’s new bar.
“I thought it was a fun play on it,” Greathouse said. “You know, this place has a regular crowd. You want to be a regular there. Hopefully, we can build that. We want people hanging out here, wanting to come multiple times a week and feeling comfortable. You’re not a regular. You’re a ‘super regular.’”
“A few of us felt confident about this one name, but Miles was like, ‘I’ve got one, but I’m not going to say it, because you need to see it,’” Scrimpshire added. “Seeing the full brand presentation, Miles did it for us with the name. Nobody objected; we were sold.”
The interior design of Super Regular also came organically. Greathouse said he and his business partners sent photos of decorations and design elements from “cool places” that they like to each other and sporadically picked up thrifted and vintage items to incorporate into the space.
The diamond logo for Super Regular, for instance, came from Battle installing diamond-shaped windows. When Greathouse saw them, he thought it should be a consistent image with their brand.
Greathouse and Scrimpshire said all of these details help create a unique bar in Columbus. It’s the one they want to hang out in, they said.
“When we go out of town, we seek out bars like this, and it’s the space that we feel most comfortable in,” Scrimpshire said. “Now, we wanted to bring it to Columbus.”
Super Regular is open from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Mondays-Saturdays.
This story was originally published June 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM.