University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1985
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Aren't you hungry?
Lawrence stuffed with cuisine
By Grant W. Butler Staff Reporter
When KU students can't face another meal in a residence hall or cringe at the thought of leftovers, nearly 100 restaurants answer the call, serving up an amorgasorb of food that they can go out to eat or have delivered to them.
Students in search of an alternative to their humdum fare, or who simply are having a case of late-night hunger pangs, can choose from foods ranging from a dinner plate of crepes or quiche to a taco from a drive-through window.
Mexican and Italian foods are the best-represented cuisines in the city. Each type has 14 restaurants.
The majority of Mexican restaurants are geared to the hurried食. Most feature a menu of tacos, burritos, enchiladas and nachos, and some feature taco salads, rice and beans.
Six restaurants offer Mexican food in a full-service, dinner atomosphere. The menu include platters of one particular item, or a combination of different entrees and side dishes, and appetizers. Four of the restaurants have private clubs which serve drinks such as margaritas or pina coladas to accompany dinner.
A membership is required for admittance to all clubs in Lawrence, but many of the clubs that serve food also provide public dining.
Italian food in Lawrence means pizza to many KU students. All 14 Italian restaurants specialize in pizza, some serve different Italian dishes, Italian sandwiches, salads and bars as garlic bread
Valentino's Ristorante, 544 W. 23rd St., specializes in pizza, baked lasagna, veal fettucine and has a salad bar. The restaurant offers you-you-can eat and buffet specials as well.
Many Italian restaurants deliver hot pizzas right to students' doors until the wee hours of the morning. Several deal only with delivery orders.
One new restaurant that delivers pizza is Checkers Pizza, 2214 Yale Road, which was formerly Pizza at Stephanie's.
Ten restaurants can satisfy a student's appetite for hamburgers. Most of them also offer chicken, fish and roast beef for those who don't care for burgers.
Daring hamburger lovers may wish to take on the Grizzly Burger Challenge at Harry Bear's Charcoal Broiler, 106 N.
Park St. To complete the challenge, a person must eat an entire two-pound hamburger served on a 12-inch bun and one of three chicken or turkey in 45 minutes — without leaving the table.
People who successfully complete the challenge are refunded the $12 cost of the burger and get their names placed on Harry's "Wall of Fame" for the month.
Six Lawrence restaurants serve delicatessen specialties or submarine sandwiches. Some deliver their sandwiches.
For those who like food with an Oriental flavor, Lawrence has five Chinese
"There are 14 pizza places in town, and everyone has at least one outlet that delivers. In a college town, you have to deliver to survive, and you have to get people's attention through advertising."
John Botbyl, owner Pizza Shuttle
restaurants, serving beef, pork, seafood and chicken dishes made with fresh vegetables and sauces. All five offer a variety of cuisines and sauces, as well as fortune cookies.
Three restaurants serve fried chicken. Side dishes vary from corn and green beans to fresh-baked bibcuits.
Three steak houses in Lawrence cater to
leaves of red meat, and they all feature
bake dishes.
For barbecue, students can choose from two restaurants that serve smoked ribs, sandwiches, in addition to a variety of barbecued beef, pork and chicken.
For dessert, ice cream fans can find relief at Baskin-Bobbins 31 Flavors, 925 Iowa St. and 1524 W. 23rd St. or at Dairy Place, 1524 Iowa St. and 1835 Massachusetts St.
Frozen yogurt is featured at The Country's Best Yogurt, 711 W. 23rd St., and along with flavored popcorn at P.K. Popper, 6 E. Ninth St.
Pyramid Pizza, 507 W. 14th and 216
W. 25th h., offers AWl-AWhips. The dish
is made when candy, cookies, nuts or fruit are mixed in with ice cream or yogurt. A similar dish is served at Dairy Queen stores.
For students looking for a quick breakfast, or for a late-night snack, eight stores in the city sell doughnuts.
Joe's Bakery, 616 W. Ninth St., is open late at night, and specializes in sandwiches, cookies and hot, glazed doughnuts.
Muncher's Bakery, 925 Iowa St., serves doughnuts, cakes, cookies and rolls.
Students with late-night appetites can go to one of the four restaurants that stay open.
The return of students to Lawrence means increased business for restaurant owners, and it also means increased competition among restaurants for student's dollars.
"Our business will increase 45 percent to 50 percent," said Butch Ladd, assistant manager of Mazzio's Pizza, 2630 Iowa St. "It's pretty slow without students here."
John Bothyl, owner of Pizza Shuttle, 160 I W. 23rd St., said that even though he had a strong business with residential customers, he expected business to rise by about 60 percent when students returned. He said the key to success in pizza deliveries is informing the consumer about a business.
"There are 14 pizza places in town, and everyone has at least one outlet that delivers," he said. "In a college town, you have to deliver to survive, and you have to get people's attention through advertising."
Botbyl said that the return of students would mean an increase in deliveries in the early evening and late at night.
"There is a good student business from the dorms because students sometimes want to pass on the food there," he said. "The business is that we don't business, because we're open until 2 a.m."
Jenny Johnson, manager of Yello Sub,
745 New Hampshire St., said that she didn't
think much competition existed among
sandwich restaurants because customers
would go to a particular place for a
particular type of sandwich.
Johnson said that location was important to business, and she said that Yello Sub was planning to move away from New Hampshire Street within the next few months because people didn't know that the store was there.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Lawrence suffers no shortage of fast-food restaurants, as a drive down Sixth Street quickly shows.
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