The first-ever Mission Restaurant Week is aiming to support the city’s local restaurants after a challenging 2020, coordinators say.
Lulu’s Boutique owner Jennifer Pugh and Farm Bureau insurance agent TJ Roberts, president and vice president of Mission Business District, respectively, developed the restaurant week concept as a way to support local eateries during COVID-19.
Mission’s event is modeled after the larger Kansas City Restaurant Week, which happens each January at hundreds of restaurants and bars around the metro.
Roberts said this inaugural event will focus on helping mom-and-pop shops in Mission stay afloat at at time when vaccine distribution is picking up and an end to pandemic restrictions becomes more foreseeable. Philanthropic efforts will be expanded in future events, too.
With so much already on restaurant owners’ plates, Roberts said he and Pugh hope…
