Restaurants

Pandemic Prompts Renaissance in Outdoor Dining

The need for outdoor spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting restaurants to essentially turn themselves inside out.

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Diametric Brewing Co. taproom.

Age of Coronavirus: Survival Strategies for Restaurants, Distilleries and Breweries

Kansas City restaurants, breweries and distilleries are creating business survival strategies in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Whatever Happened to Smaks?

The elephant on Johnson Drive stopped traffic. “My dad [Bill Fielder] had met a zookeeper and he asked him to bring over an elephant for the opening of Smaks,” Wes Fielder said. “You’d watch the cars out front and people would slam on their brakes to try to figure out what was going on.” The…

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