For more than 17 years, the friendly face of Pete Utthachoo was a part of the Sioux City culinary scene. Along the way, he turned regular diners into friends, became
Piyapit "Pete" Utthachoo, proprietor of the downtown Sioux City restaurant Pete s Thai on 5th and original owner of Diamond Thai, died Wednesday at a Sioux City hospital. He was 56.
On the second-to-last Food Truck Friday of the season, Becky Barnes was confronted with one of the least glamorous duties assigned to her role as manager. For the past 13
+11 The big, new food trend (in 2020) is that there isn t one, Sitzmann said, sitting inside of P s Pizza House s Dakota Dunes dining room. As an industry, we re all hunkering down and doing everything we can to get by.
NONTRADITIONAL EATERIES FLOURISHED IN THE FACE OF COVIDÂ
While traditional eateries struggled to regain their pre-pandemic customers, non-traditional businesses flourished.
This included the Jolly Time Koated Kernels retail store, which remained open when other operations were forced to shut down.
FOOD TRUCKS GO MAINSTREAM
Chef Kenny Crampton displays a lamb gyro at his food truck, Big Papa s Grub on the Run. Tim Hynds, The Weekender