Daily Archives: May 13, 2009

Preferred Health chooses Greteman Group as agency of record

john-david-burkholder-smPreferred Health Systems has selected branding agency Greteman Group as its agency of record. That ends the insurance company’s 13-year relationship with Associated.

“We feel that Greteman Group is in a fantastic position . . . to help us get where we want to go,” says John David Burkholder, Preferred Health’s manager of content and strategic positioning.

“We’re just kind of all about wellness,” says Sonia Greteman, agency president and creative director. “We think we’re in sync with Preferred Health on that.”

Greteman says the agency has a comprehensive wellness program for its employees and has on-site yoga, lunchtime fitness sessions, smoking-cessation plans and healthy food at all agency events.

Burkholder says Preferred Health likes the agency’s enthusiasm and focus on wellness.

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You don’t say

“I really have run out of kids this year.”

Sarah Beck on how she’ll be selling peaches and other produce at Beck’s Farm north of the Kansas Coliseum and not in Wichita because her kids are grown and gone and can’t tend the farm anymore

Yep, Kwan Court is still open

sushiKwan Court owner Kong Wong is concerned that diners still don’t realize he he hasn’t closed for remodeling yet.

The restaurant will close May 25 and reopen June 15.

Frankly speaking: Restaurant may need name change

hotdogOn Tuesday, only their second day of business, the owners of the new Let’s Be Frank learned they may have to change the name of their hot dog restaurant.

“We got an e-mail yesterday,” co-owner Kody Allen says of a hot dog seller in California who’s operating under the same name. Allen says that man’s business seems to be “a hot dog cart with walls.”

Allen and business partner Brad Standing have a restaurant with 20 seats (and more to come) at the southeast corner of Douglas and Grove.

They have 125 hot dog styles — from the basics to a $40 caviar dog — and offer 38 varieties daily.

So Allen thinks that unless lawyers get involved, he’ll probably keep Let’s Be Frank.

Just in case, though, he says, “We’ve been sending out Twitter and MySpace bulletins asking for suggestions” for a new name.

“I think it would be really cool to have a patron suggest it.”

Combination bar and arcade to open in Delano

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Who says games are just for children?

Certainly not Sierra McRae and her fiance, Zackary Roach.

They plan to open a combination bar and arcade in Delano this fall.

Belmont’s Bar & Arcade will open at 728 W. Douglas in the former Strings Attached space. McRae and Roach are in the process of buying the building now.

“We just felt like there is this kind of underground big group of people that weren’t being catered to,” McRae says.

She hopes to appeal to “not only the college kids but the 40-somethings, too.”

That’s why she’ll offer a range of games that have been popular through the years, from Pac-Man and Galaga to GarageBand and Wii.

“We wanted to do the whole progression of video games,” McRae says.

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