When the novel coronavirus shut down dining at the Pretty Prairie Steakhouse, it didn’t take long for the owners to figure out that offering carryout was not going to sustain them.
“That lasted about a week and we knew we couldn’t do it because of the overhead,” said Liz Shepherd, a daughter of owners Ed and Judy Markel.
Then their Sysco food delivery representative, Kerrie Kaufman-Molitor, originally a Pretty Prairie native, suggested another idea – groceries.
Now, instead of steaming plates, tables in the restaurant in the small town about 25 miles south of Hutchinson are piled with produce, flour, loaves of bread, spices and various condiments.
They are also offering bundles with a variety of meats, Shepherd said.
“We tried to get as many things as people might need in a week,” she said.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)
