KCRag Forum

The Kansas City metro saw 849 business closings — both temporary and permanent — between March 1 and July 10, according to a spokesman for the San Francisco-based crowd-sourced review business.

As of July 10, 489 businesses in the region have closed permanently, including 127 restaurants and 66 retail businesses. U.S. Census Bureau figures from 2017 — the most recent data available — indicate there were 40,608 businesses in the metro.

brewcrew1000 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:42 pm The good about tapcade closing is that it should keep up/down in that spot for a long time

swid wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:28 pm It still did good business on event nights, but it had become noticeably less busy at other times. While all other Flying Saucer locations (other than the one inside DFW) are operated by their corporate parent, KC’s became a franchise operated by Cordish last fall. There are many more beer options for craft beer in the metro now than there was in 2008, and the KC location’s significant management turnover over the past several years didn’t help, either.

All that being said, it was still one of the top 2-3 craft beer bars in the metro when it closed; to preempt Kevin’s inevitable rebuttal, listicles that say that several breweries or Up-Down were better place for beer in KC aren’t applicable to what I’m referring to, as those things aren’t beer bars.

brewcrew1000 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:39 pm Sama Zama is closed but might have been pre covid

mgsports wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:48 pm Arbys closing Prairie Village.

KCPowercat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 2:47 pm Clubhouse Experience (although not sure how much COVID19 impacted them)