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1 week ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
St. Louis cult favorite — gooey butter cake — serves as the springboard for a new Kansas City bakery … with a twist. It also sells gooey butter cookies. “Gooey butter cake is a St. Louis tradition. It’s where I’m from and we have the family recipe,” said Tennille Lampe, founder of Oh My Gooey KC, which recently opened its 11119 N. Oak Trafficway specialty bakery to retail customers. “I think it is pretty rich, indulgent with a melt-in-your-mouth texture.
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3 weeks ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
‘Bigger, better, crazier; Never settle; The building had a dark cloud but we are going to bring new life to it’Less than a year after opening Holy Brunch KC in Westport — and one small expansion — Drue Stewart is making an enormous leap. He’ll go from 2,000-square-feet on one floor, to a 16,000-square-foot building with two floors and a rooftop; then open another concept in his current space.
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3 weeks ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
Overland Park cookie shop gets a new baker behind the counter, adding a frosted twist to familiar favoritesShe learned to bake as a child by her grandmother’s side. So by middle school, Maddie Callicott was so proficient she not only held popular bake sales, she printed up business cards for her “You Take the Cake” operation to generate more orders from family and friends.
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4 weeks ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
Quinn Austin put several sports to the test as a preteen — racing from basketball practice to softball to volleyball. But she latched on to just one. “Volleyball. It was my sport. Everyone was having a good time,” she said. “We just loved the cheers — a cheer when we got a hit, a cheer when we got an ace. It was the camaraderie. I just committed to volleyball.”Now after 10 years as a coach, Quinn, 26, is partnering with her father, Kerry, on the new VooDoo Volleyball facility in Overland Park.
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1 month ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
This little strip in Kansas City, Kansas, boasts some of the metro’s favorite restaurants: Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que, 1889 Pizza Napoletana, and Gus’s World Famous Chicken. Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop is just down the street in Westwood. Now an Asian fusion restaurant is joining the mix. Sannin — poke, sushi and ramen — plans to open by early May at 2820 W. 47th St., in the Northwood shopping center (across from Walmart Neighborhood Market). Ginger Sue’s and Kind Food formerly operated in the space.
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1 month ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
A new Tropical Smoothie Cafe franchisee is opening not one, but two locations this spring — all while keeping her day job and raising twin 4-year-olds. Nikki Vogel is taking over 2,200-square-feet in the former Calibration Brewery building at 119 Armour Road in North Kansas City for a scheduled April 16 opening.
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1 month ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
Local favorite Betty Rae’s Ice Cream is expanding in Johnson County — taking a coveted corner spot in the Shoppes at Deer Creek Woods in sprawling Overland Park. A May opening is scheduled at 6936 W. 135th. St. It will be the sixth Betty Rae’s for the metro. (Hen House Market is an anchor tenant in the center, just east of Metcalf Avenue.)“When I bought the company two years ago, my intent was really to bring Betty Rae’s to more people in Kansas City,” owner Matt Shatto told Startland News.
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1 month ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Joyce Smith
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A new stretch of coffee shops in the 5500 block of Troost will test the caffeine tolerance of folks seeking a fix. Six options soon fill out the menu along this bustling corridor. Blackhole Bakery, High Hopes Ice Cream and The Littlest Bake Shop currently offer coffee along with their core menu items. But Blackhole is expanding with a coffee and bagel bar. Kaveh Coffee Co. is opening just to the north, and Polished Perk Coffee Co. is going in across the street.
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1 month ago | 
missouribusinessalert.com | Joyce Smith
Matt Shatto wants to “create smiles across the country” — not just in the metro. His plan: scoop a pint of franchising into the handcrafted mix for Betty Rae’s Ice Cream, a shop that developed into multiple must-visit Kansas City destinations over nearly a decade. Betty Rae’s is now targeting seven cities in the region for its franchise footprint: St. Louis, Missouri; Wichita, Kansas; Bentonville, Arkansas; Nashville, Tennessee; Denver, Colorado; and Oklahoma City and Tulsa in Oklahoma.
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1 month ago | 
startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith
Matt Shatto wants to “create smiles across the country” — not just in the metro. His plan: scoop a pint of franchising into the handcrafted mix for Betty Rae’s Ice Cream, a shop that developed into multiple must-visit Kansas City destinations over nearly a decade. Betty Rae’s is now targeting seven cities in the region for its franchise footprint: St. Louis, Missouri; Wichita, Kansas; Bentonville, Arkansas; Nashville, Tennessee; Denver, Colorado; and Oklahoma City and Tulsa in Oklahoma.
