trader joe's.

[KCMax]

"Pizza-in-a-cup"?

[chrizow]

I believe you are thinking of the defunct Hot'n Now chain.  The one on Linwood is now a Popeye's.

do you mean china feast?  that thing looks just like a hot n now...or a checkers.

CHK F RICE 3.49

[LenexatoKCMO]

CHK F RICE 3.49

You must have missed a sad development - they have replaced the infamous "CH K F R CE" sign with a permant picture of some fried chicken dinner.  Apparently there weren't enough places on this block where you could get a fried chicken dinner - so china feast is jumping in to serve the market. 

[chrizow]

You must have missed a sad development - they have replaced the infamous "CH K F R CE" sign with a permant picture of some fried chicken dinner.  Apparently there weren't enough places on this block where you could get a fried chicken dinner - so china feast is jumping in to serve the market.   

linwood is awesome.

[LenexatoKCMO]

linwood is awesome.

I would love to see the thought process as someone drives right by the Church's AND the KFC and instead decides to pull into "China Feast, Now Featuring Fried Chicken!". 

[DiggityDawg]

do you mean china feast?  that thing looks just like a hot n now...or a checkers.

CHK F RICE 3.49

Yep - it was a Checkers until China Feast got run out by Subway down the street.

I dunno wtf the deal is with their new chicken dinners...& they're Cajun, too. Which makes NO sense w/Popeye's right across the street.

[chrizow]

I would love to see the thought process as someone drives right by the Church's AND the KFC and instead decides to pull into "China Feast, Now Featuring Fried Chicken!". 

AND the popeye's at gillham/linwood. 

[MidtownGrrl]

I would love to see the thought process as someone drives right by the Church's AND the KFC and instead decides to pull into "China Feast, Now Featuring Fried Chicken!". 

Maybe someone in the family wants pork fried rice, someone else wants fried chicken?

[voltopt]

Yep - it was a Checkers until China Feast got run out by Subway down the street.

I dunno wtf the deal is with their new chicken dinners...& they're Cajun, too. Which makes NO sense w/Popeye's right across the street.

It was something else after it was Checkers and before it was China Feast - another burger joint.  I recall eating there in early 2003... it was called something like Burger Time or something..

[dangerboy]

Someone on the TJ-KC Facebook group claims that sometime this month the manager of a St. Louis store told them that TJs is confirmed for KC and they are scouting the Missouri side for locations.  The manager said to expect a TJs here within 1 to 1.5 years.

[zonk]

I heard they are looking at Village West....Yawn.

Also looking at a site in mid-town/Westportish area.

[NDTeve]

Midtown/Westport would be good. Maybe replace Whole Foods?

[LenexatoKCMO]

Midtown/Westport would be good. Maybe replace Whole Foods?

Are you talking about the old wild oats on Main?  Way - Way - too small.  That place was too small to be a wild oats; it was like selling groceries out of your grandma's living room with a little overflow merchandise in the dining room.  The only grocery business that space is really suited to is a corner market. 

[chrizow]

Someone on the TJ-KC Facebook group claims that sometime this month the manager of a St. Louis store told them that TJs is confirmed for KC and they are scouting the Missouri side for locations.  The manager said to expect a TJs here within 1 to 1.5 years.

a manager at the chesterfield store told me this 1 to 1.5 years ago.  

my prediction:

135th and state line (on the MO side)

Plaza area - maybe the missing piece to kick the 51st/Main area into gear.

would like to see maybe a Waldo area location too.  good for SKC residents and you get the sexy PV, old leawood, etc. demos.  

Are you talking about the old wild oats on Main?  Way - Way - too small.  That place was too small to be a wild oats; it was like selling groceries out of your grandma's living room with a little overflow merchandise in the dining room.  The only grocery business that space is really suited to is a corner market. 

it's still open, and reportedly Whole Foods is going to replace it with a regular-sized store somewhere in the Plaza area.  i'd like to see an urban-scaled one right there at the NW corner of 43/Main that has been a vacant lot for a long time.

[LenexatoKCMO]

it's still open, and reportedly Whole Foods is going to replace it with a regular-sized store somewhere in the Plaza area.  i'd like to see an urban-scaled one right there at the NW corner of 43/Main that has been a vacant lot for a long time.

Did they pull it out of the anti-trust settlement?  This was supposed to be one of something like 9 locations they had to pull out of in order for the acquisition to go through.

[chrizow]

Did they pull it out of the anti-trust settlement?  This was supposed to be one of something like 9 locations they had to pull out of in order for the acquisition to go through.

the settlement did not require them to shut the store down immediately.  i think they have a long time to do it, and in the meantime they've changed over everything but the exterior signage to Whole Foods.  it's really an anomalous location for the chain, i am very pleased they've kept it going.  it's really a gem.  we do a lot of shopping there, actually.  anyone who thinks it is too small is a pussy.

[NDTeve]

the settlement did not require them to shut the store down immediately.  i think they have a long time to do it, and in the meantime they've changed over everything but the exterior signage to Whole Foods.  it's really an anomalous location for the chain, i am very pleased they've kept it going.  it's really a gem.  we do a lot of shopping there, actually.  anyone who thinks it is too small is a pussy.

[LenexatoKCMO]

anyone who thinks it is too small is a pussy.

Hey, I am not editorializing on the efficacy of small-scale food shoping.  What I am pointing out is that this space is microscopic compared to the usual space used by these chains - probably about an eighth the sq footage of a typical trader joes.  So to suggest it is a viable location for a TJ's is probably pretty far off the mark. 

[chrizow]

yeah, i actually don't know where a TJ's could go in the plaza area, unless they erected some sort of parking structure.  reportedly they wouldn't open on the plaza because of parking concerns.  the midtown Osco does not have TJ's-adequate parking (in their minds).  so while many of us are chomping at the bit for this store, we also need to take into account that it's going to be a suburban-style, car-oriented business.  maybe they can at least put the store on the street somewhere and have parking on the rear - or at least join midtown marketplace and share that insanely massive parking lot with home depot and costco.

[beautyfromashes]

I heard Beth Gottstein say something about it going in the Uptown Shoppes once, but, she's developed a reputation in my mind of getting absolutely nothing done so it probably won't happen.