Now Open: Cheddar’s Casual Cafe
| It only looks like lasagna |
It took me awhile to make my way over to the three-month-old location of the Texas-based Cheddar’s Casual Cafe in Overland Park, but I had certainly heard plenty about the restaurant concept from friends who had eaten there in other cities. The Cheddar’s chain (which currently has only one other Kansas location, in Wichita, as well as restaurants in Joplin, Springfield and St. Joseph, Missouri) serves solid, home-style fare at very inexpensive prices.
Those prices are so alluring — most dinner entrees are under $10 — that this restaurant is doing the kind of business that its rivals in the neighborhood directly across from Oak Park Mall (Mimi’s Cafe, Houlihan’s, Outback Steakhouse) must dream about. There’s typically a 30 to 45-minute wait for a table.
