WICHITA — Efrain Torres, who is reopening the Dyne Quik at 1202 N. Broadway, says he can’t open the restaurant until he upgrades the rest rooms.
He says that contrary to what he said last week, the previous owner simply retired and sold the restaurant. His closing had nothing to do with the rest room situation.
“I don’t want him to be unhappy,” Torres says of the former owner. “We do apologize.”
WICHITA — A year after closing, a new owner is making plans to reopen the Dyne Quik diner at 1202 N. Broadway.
“It’s tradition,” says Efrain Torres. “I used to eat there when I was a little kid.”
Dyne Quik is one of the city’s few remaining Valentine restaurants – metal, mobile diners that Wichita’s Valentine Manufacturing built between 1938 and 1971.
Torres says the restaurant’s previous owners had to close it because the building didn’t have proper restroom facilities. There was only one restroom, and it wasn’t handicapped accessbile.
He says he’s putting in two handicapped-accessible restrooms. Also, Torres says he’ll reupholster Dyne Quik’s dining seats “because they’re so old.”
Otherwise, he says, everything will stay the same.
Look for Dyne Quik to reopen late this year or in early 2010.