May – June 2021

Your Association and I are working behind the scenes on your behalf – all the time!  When you read through the Front Burner article, you’ll see we were able to secure some good legislation for Kentucky’s restaurant industry.  Even though legislators are not in...

March – April 2021

Hallelujah, it’s March! Spring can’t get here soon enough, and the farther 2020 is in our collective rear view mirror the better. Winter is always tough, but it seems this winter added insult to injury. Now, the tunnel that was 2020 is widening and some...

January – February 2021

Hallelujah, it’s 2021!  While flipping the calendar to January won’t magically make the woes of 2020 go away, it is nice to have them in the rear view member with renewed hope in a new year.  Who ever thought we’d be excited about January, a notoriously bad restaurant...

November – December 2020

With all the twists and turns of 2020, I think most business owners wake up every day weary, but with a “whatever crazy curveball happens today won’t surprise me” attitude.  If we have to see a silver lining to this bizarre year, adapting with innovation is a big...

September – October 2020

With each passing month, it seems as if we should be closer to the end of the pandemic.  Also with each passing month it feels like it will never be over and normal will never be what it used to be!  I think the hardest things we’re all dealing with in 2020 is...

July – August 2020

I wish I could use this column to NOT talk about the COVID 19 pandemic that has dictated all aspects of our lives the past few months, but here we are.  We made a few decisions when all this started.  We decided not to publish the usual May-June Kentucky Restaurant...