Folks around northeast Indiana know of Dan Quayle's connection to Nick's Kitchen. Nick's is the venerable downtown Huntington restaurant which may have been the birthplace of the breaded tenderloin.
Turns out the former Vice-President also figures in the history of Nichols Lunch of Kansas City.
James Hart of the Kansas City Star notes the closing of the Nichols Lunch, a 24 hour eatery which has been in continuous operation in the City of Fountains since 1921.
[Owner Michael] Bay thinks the diner and all the things that happened there would be worth a book. “I think everybody in town has a great Nichols story,” said Bay, who charged a visiting Vice President Dan Quayle for a cup of coffee back in 1991. (The cost was 81 cents; Quayle handed over $1 and told him to keep the change. The diner decided to frame the dollar.)
More: Nick's Kitchen website.
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