“The abuse has gotten so bad that every day I think about just paying.”
– Wichita legal assistant Lisa Wood, quoted in a weekend Wall Street Journal story about the 200 calls she’s fielded from her late mother’s creditors since January, when her mother died
WICHITA — Metro Grill III opens Friday in the new Encore Restaurant and Nightclub next to Scotch & Sirloin on East Kellogg.
Metro Grill owner Michael Gonzalez has entered into a partnership to sell some of his popular sandwiches and salads at the new club.
He’s particularly excited for customers who have been wanting to enjoy his food with a bottle of wine. Gonzalez says he’s frequently asked about that, but his location in Towne East Square’s food court doesn’t have it, nor does Metro Grill II in Andover, which he recently sold.
Gonzalez still hopes to sell sandwiches at other Wichita bars, which is a new venture he’s exploring, but he says he has to make sure everything runs smoothly at Encore first.
His food will be available for lunch and dinner.
WICHITA — Kathryn and Jeffrey Welch already have day jobs plus a hair salon in Clifton Square, and now they’re opening a second business.
Kathryn Welch is an avid scrapbooker – she says her husband only likes to look once she’s finished – so she’s now opening Kat Scrap Fever near their Barcelona Hair Lounge in Clifton Square at 3700 E. Douglas.
“I have 400 square feet, and 390 of it is filled with inventory,” Welch says.
She bought a large inventory from someone who planned to open a shop and then didn’t.
“We’re just trying to go through the inventory and get the store set up,” Welch says. “My hope is that we’re up and running … after the first of the year.”
She says the store will have an eBay component in part because her inventory includes a lot of older scrapbooking supplies that she thinks might have more appeal to Internet shoppers.
Welch says the store will start small, but she says she can always expand at another Clifton Square property.
“This is our second investment, so we really just wanted to make sure we weren’t overextending ourselves,” says Welch, who is a physician assistant at Neurology Center of Wichita.
Jeffrey Welch teaches journalism at South High School.
They aren’t looking for any other investments at the moment.
“Oh, god, no,” Kathryn Welch says.