have these new mhk eateries been discussed yet?

[waks]

I will IRL cry if Pizza Shuttle goes out of business.

Well it's time to grieve, I have. The potential sale to the owners of the Lawrence and Topeka pizza shuttles feel through. It's over. FWIW, I had shuttle this summer and it was mid, at best. They didn't even have the logo on the boxes anymore.

Someone will buy it God willing

[yoga-like_abana]

Didn't even get to have one last cream cheese 'za with japs on it

[Sandstone Outcropping]

I will IRL cry if Pizza Shuttle goes out of business.

Well it's time to grieve, I have. The potential sale to the owners of the Lawrence and Topeka pizza shuttles feel through. It's over. FWIW, I had shuttle this summer and it was mid, at best. They didn't even have the logo on the boxes anymore.

The thought of my kid (new KSU Cats student) not having access to Pizza Shuttle for Sunday night nourishment is breaking me inside.

[Stupid Fitz]

I will IRL cry if Pizza Shuttle goes out of business.

Well it's time to grieve, I have. The potential sale to the owners of the Lawrence and Topeka pizza shuttles feel through. It's over. FWIW, I had shuttle this summer and it was mid, at best. They didn't even have the logo on the boxes anymore.

The thought of my kid (new KSU Cats student) not having access to Pizza Shuttle for Sunday night nourishment is breaking me inside.

How could this have possibly failed? The jingle, the personal size, the drunken staple, etc. It was also in a tiny ass kitchen that couldn't have cost much to operate. Anyone have the inside towny scoop?

[waks]

I will IRL cry if Pizza Shuttle goes out of business.

Well it's time to grieve, I have. The potential sale to the owners of the Lawrence and Topeka pizza shuttles feel through. It's over. FWIW, I had shuttle this summer and it was mid, at best. They didn't even have the logo on the boxes anymore.

The thought of my kid (new KSU Cats student) not having access to Pizza Shuttle for Sunday night nourishment is breaking me inside.

How could this have possibly failed? The jingle, the personal size, the drunken staple, etc. It was also in a tiny ass kitchen that couldn't have cost much to operate. Anyone have the inside towny scoop?

probably couldn't staff it. It hasn't been a reliable late night option for years.

[pissclams]

i think they had something like a $3.50 carry-out special

[Spracne]

I will IRL cry if Pizza Shuttle goes out of business.

Well it's time to grieve, I have. The potential sale to the owners of the Lawrence and Topeka pizza shuttles feel through. It's over. FWIW, I had shuttle this summer and it was mid, at best. They didn't even have the logo on the boxes anymore.

The thought of my kid (new KSU Cats student) not having access to Pizza Shuttle for Sunday night nourishment is breaking me inside.

How could this have possibly failed? The jingle, the personal size, the drunken staple, etc. It was also in a tiny ass kitchen that couldn't have cost much to operate. Anyone have the inside towny scoop?

Student enrollments trending down for a while now. Tenuous position in the big leagues. Mashed Tater Face and Faith Face appear stagnant yet somehow entrenched--the athletic department equivalent of staglation, rankling the 'Stang.

It's the way of the West. Always has been. Folks come around while the coming's good. Folks leave just as well when the coming done came. Best you just follow on down the river. There's better, more civilized folks after a ways.

[wetwillie]

Hunams closing broke me and I feel nothing anymore

[waks]

Hunams closing broke me and I feel nothing anymore

Hunan should have never existed and its replacement is so, so much better.

[pissclams]

chinese chef kept this poor, struggling college student alive

[ben ji]

Didn't even get to have one last cream cheese 'za with japs on it

My first introduction to pizza shuttle was my freshman year at around 130 AM when some of my older fraternity brothers ordered a pizza named after a guy who had graduated a couple of years earlier. It was called the MacDougle (SP) and it was Cream Cheese/Sausage/Jalepenos and I've been chasing that high ever since.

[waks]

Didn't even get to have one last cream cheese 'za with japs on it

My first introduction to pizza shuttle was my freshman year at around 130 AM when some of my older fraternity brothers ordered a pizza named after a guy who had graduated a couple of years earlier. It was called the MacDougle (SP) and it was Cream Cheese/Sausage/Jalepenos and I've been chasing that high ever since.

Cream cheese, bacon, jalapeno was my jam.

chinese chef kept this poor, struggling college student alive

their General Tsos was the goat

[Tobias]

Hunams closing broke me and I feel nothing anymore

Hunan should have never existed and its replacement is so, so much better.

yeah, tasty china house kinda rules for getting a little bit off the beaten path stuff.  amazingly dependable if you have a need for a steady flow of Sam's Club box fragments.

[Tobias]

not sure if i've ever asked itt or just thought it in my #innermonologue, but what is the best 'za?  any options i ever think of mostly suck crap and as a half-time resident i kinda get bummed that itch manhattan has better option(s)

[Tobias]

basically i need a hail mary on deets for some pizza truck that's in front of menards every other harvest moon or something, waks

[waks]

not sure if i've ever asked itt or just thought it in my #innermonologue, but what is the best 'za?  any options i ever think of mostly suck crap and as a half-time resident i kinda get bummed that itch manhattan has better option(s)

it's AJ's, my friend, and there is nothing else.

[Tobias]

AJ’s is kinda bad.  it’s a sad state of affairs

[waks]

AJ’s is kinda bad.  it’s a sad state of affairs

While I'm not going to say it's the best 'za I've had I don't agree with your assessment. I will agree that it is sad that a community of Manhattan's size is pretty much limited to one independent pizza place for options.

[pissclams]

Didn't even get to have one last cream cheese 'za with japs on it

My first introduction to pizza shuttle was my freshman year at around 130 AM when some of my older fraternity brothers ordered a pizza named after a guy who had graduated a couple of years earlier. It was called the MacDougle (SP) and it was Cream Cheese/Sausage/Jalepenos and I've been chasing that high ever since.

Cream cheese, bacon, jalapeno was my jam.

chinese chef kept this poor, struggling college student alive

their General Tsos was the goat

give me a full order of general tsaos and a 3 pack of goons and I was good for the day

[Sandstone Outcropping]

AJ’s is kinda bad.  it’s a sad state of affairs

While I'm not going to say it's the best 'za I've had I don't agree with your assessment. I will agree that it is sad that a community of Manhattan's size is pretty much limited to one independent pizza place for options.

I think AJ's is fine.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Possibly relevant message from Arrow Coffee popped up in my socials this morning. Strange happenings at 1800 Claflin:

Dear friends,
1800 Claflin road has been our home for 12 years.
Arrow started as a teeny tiny 500 square foot space and because of your love and dedication, it quickly became too crowded. Many of you remember that little space. We only had pourover coffee and we were really nerdy. David, Ben, Cody, Hillary, Sarah, and Eric made coffee and often said “We’re not good, but we’re slow!” because honestly no one understood what the hell we were trying to do. It started VERY slow. But the coffee was (is!) really good, and when people showed up, the room filled with an electric buzz.
David started the company on his own, and his friends built the bar and the tables (their names are still signed on the bottom of those tables, which have since moved outdoors). Within a few months, Ben joined the crew and started making wackadoo cocktails. They were delicious. We added food and pastries. We added a little patio outside (also, remember the annex?). People started understanding what we were doing and started inviting their friends and the party kept on growing. People just started coming and just didn’t stop.
Subs and such moved into the gas station next door, so we knocked down the wall and grew. We added more food and more pastries. We turned the original 500 square foot space into a cocktail lounge. Rachel stopped working three jobs and took over the kitchen. We started catering events. We opened a cafe in the Vet school. Sarah and David had a baby (and then two more!),and David started a construction company (Abode!). Rachel and Ben purchased their share of the business and then opened Pool House.
2020 hit, and our student staff went home for spring break and then didn’t return. Sam and Collin were our only full time baristas and wanted to stay on, so the four of us moved the couches into the recently shut down lobby so we could watch tv and then we started offering delivery. Collin cut people’s hair in the parking lot, and Ben took up baking, so we started putting together biweekly boxes of eggs, toilet paper, bread and kept our Groupme open for pictures of staff pets and hair cut requests. Things were scary in the outside world, but our little bubble felt safe and silly. And people kept supporting us!
Things started to get back to “normal” but it took us longer to ease into life without masks and “pods” (remember when we did that? lol). We slowly started to reopen, and you showed up with smiles and cheers and even a few tears (mostly from Rachel). We opened our downtown location. You kept showing up.
We’ve watched families grow. Regulars started adding children and furry little friends to their families and brought them to meet us. We made new friends from old customers, we’ve employed some of you, we’ve employed (and currently employ!) many of your children, we’ve shared meals with you, and tears, and so many laughs. You helped us (Ben and Rachel) through the 100 hour work weeks, and supported our staff through rushes full of strangers by ordering drip coffees and saying "you're doing great”. You paid our bills, paid our staff, provided a safety net of support when we needed it. YOU have made these years at 1800 Claflin FULL of magic.
Our lease was supposed to run through August of 2026. In 2023, a lease was dropped at our location and we signed it, understanding that our landlord would be in to pick it up. The lease disappeared, but no copy was sent to us. At the time, were in the middle of starting the Bodega downtown, figuring out how to balance three businesses, keep ourselves sane, and trying to cultivate a solid staff while not feeling very solid ourselves. We did not think to scan the lease because in the past, she had always taken care of that for us. We had nearly a decade of trust built, and had no reason to think differently.
On August 5th (Rachel’s birthday), we received a text from our landlord saying that she needed to be in our space after hours to look at an electrical box. We gave her the go ahead, and then the following day learned that she was indeed not looking at the electrical box, but instead was showing our space to a competing business. We immediately reached out for clarification and were told that she would contact us soon. We waited five days with no contact from our landlord, and then reached out to the other business owner, who told us that our landlord (behind our back and without talking to us) reached out to her, but she has no ill will for us. On August 15th (the day after Arrow’s 12th birthday), we received a letter in the mail saying that our landlord will be “going a different direction”.
So here we are. Our lease has unwillingly come to an end. Our landlord has decided to move forward with a different coffee shop. Without our consent, she reached out to another established shop. We have until September 14th to exit the space that we lovingly built with the help of our friends and family. We aren’t giving up and are hopeful to see out the remainder of our lease, but to be honest the breach of trust by the building owner is hard to stomach and has done irreparable damage to our ability to feel safe and secure in what should be a sacred space for us. When the dust settles and final decisions are made our staff will move to our downtown location and we hope you’ll fill the bodega with even more magic that it already possesses.
We don’t have many answers at the moment as this news came as quite a shock that we haven’t quite come out of yet, but in the coming weeks we will be keeping you all informed and letting you know how you can help. If we do only have another few weeks, we plan on making the absolute best of them, so in the meantime we hope to see your beautiful smiling faces in the cafe. We will be cherishing every moment and probably unsuccessfully holding back tears, we’ll do our best to keep them out of your coffee.
What else is new?
It honestly feels hard to think about anything else, but these things are genuinely worth your attention, so we persist.
Lounge
Jazz Night Returns!
This Thursday from 7-9 some amazing vibes from some fantastic local musicians. Grab dinner or a Martini and bob your head along!
Bodega
Wine Tasting from 4-7 tonight.
There will be wine, we will be drinking some of it. We hope you'll join us and commiserate over a glass or three.

[ChiComCat]

That's a shame.  The arrow people are the best and doing some of the best and most original things in MHK

[WillieWatanabe]

They've been saying this since they closed but Subs N Such is still open to re-opening??

Subs-N-Such

While we haven't given up looking for a building to reopen the sub shop, we have decided that if we reopen we'll need new and different shirts. So we're selling all the leftover shirts we have. Last chance to buy a Subs-N-Such tshirt. $18 a shirt, shipped right to your door. Here's what we got left:
Purple shirts
2-- Large
2-- 4X Large
Gray shirts
1-- Small
4-- Medium
13-- X Large
5-- 2X Large
Let us know how many you need!

[Sandstone Outcropping]

They've been saying this since they closed but Subs N Such is still open to re-opening??

Subs-N-Such

While we haven't given up looking for a building to reopen the sub shop, we have decided that if we reopen we'll need new and different shirts. So we're selling all the leftover shirts we have. Last chance to buy a Subs-N-Such tshirt. $18 a shirt, shipped right to your door. Here's what we got left:
Purple shirts
2-- Large
2-- 4X Large
Gray shirts
1-- Small
4-- Medium
13-- X Large
5-- 2X Large
Let us know how many you need!

How does a place like or Goodcents this have any chance of survival vs the big sandwich franchises (Subway, Jimmy John's, Firehouse)?

[Stevesie60]

That's a shame.  The arrow people are the best and doing some of the best and most original things in MHK

Totally agree. I really hope that whatever is going in there fails miserably (assuming they were aware of the shadiness they were a part of, which it sounds like they were)