Applebee's

News of Applebee's shutting doors across America has been out there for a while now, but are we going to be affected in Washington? Specifically, Wenatchee?

Yeah, We know when we live in a small town. And for the most part, we love it. Sure we don't have a few things that we would love to see come to Wenatchee. We've talked about before. But there are a few other signs. And we like to make fun of ourselves for it.

Happy Hour, something I actually grew up knowing about. Every weekday from 4p-6p my dad always visits our local waterhole in Pateros, sit down with the good ole boys and have a nice cold one or two. Actually, I didn’t know it was called “Happy Hour,” I just thought from 4p-6p that it was “dads going to town time.”

I recently wrote about my dream of starting up a tiki bar here in Wenatchee, wondering if a tiki bar could actually be successful. Could we successfully compete with the other bars around town. So I had to find out what people thought of some of the local bars. Talk with people, and of course checking out the ratings of these places.

One of the things I noticed and loved when I moved to the Wenatchee Valley was that everywhere I went, people were talking to each other as if they were best buds.