Wednesday, August 18, 1976
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New cafe serves meatless meals
By DAYNA HEIDRICK
Staff Writer
Five people decided six months ago that Lawrence needed an eating place that sold nutritious food at reasonable prices. Now a collective of about 20 people is working to open Sister Kettle, a new cafe-coffeehouse at 14th and Massachusetts.
The cafe will serve breakfast and lunch
from 1 to 1 p.m. and the coffeehouse
will open for tea.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZEI
Sister Kettle's menu features complete vegetarian meals with a complementary balance of proteins, vitamins and nutrients. Founding members hope to teach people about nutrition by giving customers a chance to try good food.
SISTER KETTLE'S coffeehouse will be a place to play chess, read, visit with friends, study, play a musical instrument, sing or listen to quiet music.
Collective workers have restored the old building, taking out the modern dropped ceiling and painting the original ornate sculptured ceiling cream-colored to match the existing fashions. Fashioned ceiling fans, prisms and wind chimes carry out the old-style atmosphere.
Sister Katie has neither one owner nor one boss. The Community Mercantile Credit Bank has a partnership with cooperative, helps to finance Sister Katie by loaning money to individuals who in turn invest in the cafe. Workers who commit 20 or more hours of work are collective are involved in decision-making.
A collective creation
Those who work now volunteer their labor. Some hope to support themselves by working at the collective, earning a subsistence salary after the restaurant gets into full swing. Others donate their time to supporting themselves with other jobs.
MEMBERS OF the cooperative are almost all amateurs in the restaurant business. They got involved for a variety of reasons.
Nancy Keller, Lawrence Headstart teacher, said she taught Lawrence was in desperate need of a place like Sister Kette. Keller said she learned a lot during the remodeling, such as hanging sheet rock and framing walls.
Pat Sullivan, Lawrence counsel and Gwen Burgess, also of Lawrence, help out with the work on the Sister Kettle Cafe. The cafe will be run by a collective of people rather than a team.
Bruce Scollar said he saw the collective as a return to the ideas of early America, of self-reliance and making one's own living out of dependence on others to create jobs.
Scolular said that the food would be vegetarian, including eggs and cheese. If any dish is made with a meat by-product—gelatin, for example—there will be a star beside the item on the menu, with an explanatory note.
STEVE KELTNER, Lawrence senior, said he thought the educational purpose of the restaurant, to teach people about good nutrition, was very important. He wants to
serve "very, very nutritious food" at prices
"cheaper than any place in town."
Kellner he said it important to be more caring and feeling in the workplace.
"So many people hate their jobs. We want to make this different, to be our own bosses."
Kellner plans to support himself working 20 to 40 hours a week at the collective.
Gwen Burgess, Lawrence junior, said she wanted "a happy place to work; the environment should be positive. You are people and should provide that care goes into making the food."
Burgess plans to continue working in the fall. She lives on a farm and the other people live there can help support her until the restaurant can afford to pay salaries.
Merchants come, merchants go
Staff Writer
Some of the stores and restaurants around Lawrence may be unfamiliar to you, and some may look empty. That's because there are new stores, places that changed hands and some that went out of business over the summer.
By KENNA GIFFIN
The familiar places that disappeared completely are Shakespeare's Pizza, Crescent and Naismith; Bob's Food Mart, 11th and Massachusetts; Key Rex诊验,盯着治疗中心 'Texas Tom's', 2247 Ousdahl; and Hillcrest School Center.
The Tuk burned July 7, and the building's owner, Richard Raney, Sr., said he wouldn't lease the building for use as a tavern again. He was in charge of the facility years, he said, and it's time for a change.
Replacing the University Shop, Crescent and Naismith, is the Submarine Sandwich Shop. The owners run a similar shop on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo.
Britches Corner is taking over the Alley Shop's店面, 843 Massachusetts. Lee McGoff and Mike Murfin own the store which features contemporary European fashions for men and women. It opened Aug. 15.
Kroger Discount Foods, 23rd and Naismith, will be sold with the Kansas City Kroger stores, but no buyers had been found as of late July, the Lawrence store manager in Kansas City, said. They expect the sale to happen on whenever new management comes in.
open Sept. 1 with a self-service gas station,
a car wash and a mini-mart.
The brand new businesses include two shopping plazas, Commerce Plaza, 31st and 42nd Avenues. The brand new businesses include two shopping plazas, Commerce Plaza, 31st and 42nd Avenues.
Snodgrass wants to add a liquor store and a self-service garage, but he hasn't decided what else to include. The center is near two mobile home parks, K-Mart and the Auto Plaza. Snodgrass said a center like his was needed in that area.
Lawrence's first mall shopping area is being built in the old tire company building at 8th and New Hampshire, Bob Gould, the builder, said.
The center will have a skylight area which will create a sidewalk cafe atmosphere around the restaurant. Small arts and crafts shops will occupy the shopping space, which will be decorated with a lot of graphics and interesting lighting, Gould said. The center is scheduled to open in September.
University Daily Kansan
SUE BRYANT, 1325 Valley Lane, who also works at the Community Mercantile food cooperative, said people always asked her, 'Why don't we have a cave where we can eat the kind of food we buy here?' She thought it was a good idea and found herself getting more and more involved as the idea "mushroomed."
Eight Thirty-Seven Massachusetts Street
Bryant said the group wanted to create jobs, to put their money together and come up with an alternative to the owner-boss system.
Bryant stressed that the cooperative restaurant wanted to teach people how to make sandwiches.
Bryant said the collective would be open to doing different things with the cafe-coffeehouse. They would like for artists to display their work on a low consignment basis and want to have "open mike" nights for people to perform.
BRYANT EXPLAINED that there was room for other people who wanted to commit themselves to work. Even those who can only come in every once in a while to wash dishes for a few hours or help clean up are welcome.
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