Is Waid’s just too … 1982?
The legendary Madonna proved at last night’s Super Bowl XLVI half-time show that one really can look young, limber and sexy at age 53. Not so true, alas, of the two KC-area Waid’s restaurants. In fact, the Prairie Village Shopping Center location at 6920 Mission — which appears to have been last redecorated back when Madonna’s debut album was released — has such an air of shabby sadness to it that I’m starting to wonder if this old-fashioned diner has much of a future. After all, two stylish new restaurant operations — Tavern in the Village and Story — opened in Prairie Village Shopping Center last year. Hasn’t the badly dated Waid’s become almost an anachronism for the shopping district?
“We’re on a month-to-month lease,” whispered one of the servers to me on a recent visit to the restaurant. “We’re really only busy anymore on Saturday and Sunday mornings.”
