I don’t want to count our chickens before they hatch and hit the roaster, but our state may finally be taking a sane approach to finding a new operator – or possibly operators – of our state park lodge restaurants.
In case you missed it, the agency that brought us Swadley’s Foggy Bottom Kitchen and Lookout Kitchen issued an RFP seeking new operators for the scattered set of eateries.
This time around, as opposed to ambitiously trying to find one singular operator to take on the semi-impossible task of running a profitable chain of seven full-service remote eateries in low-density state parks all at once – they’re turning down the ambition meter, being honest about the situation, and coming up with a more feasible and practical solution.