The Gazette | Sunday, October 27, 2019 | Section C Your contact: Sections Editor Shari Rampenthal, 608-755-8394, [email protected] Virtual restaurants? Ghost kitchens? Restaurateurs experiment with new app-based strategies to cater to customers who want delivery, takeout services By Alexandra Olson for Cheesy Deliciousness, Both concepts have growing some 20% each Associated Press and Butterfinger milkshakes emerged to capitalize on the year. Restaurant visits, for Heavenly Shakes—all of rising popularity of order- meanwhile, remain mostly which can only be ordered ing in instead of dining NEW YORK flat. through online sites Grub- out. The trend also speaks Frato’s Pizza looks like Kudrna says the virtual hub, DoorDash and Uber to the growing power of a typical family restaurant restaurants are a way to gain Eats. third-party delivery com- with its black-and-white enough incremental revenue Owner Michael Kudrna panies, which have trans- checkered floor and red to offset the fees he pays to launched the four spinoffs formed the way many people the third-party apps, which chairs. But in the kitchen, earlier this year in a matter find restaurants and raised the cooks are whipping up now drive one-third of his of weeks as he races to keep expectations for speed and sales. Restaurants pay com- dishes for four other restau- his Chicago-area business convenience. rants at the same time. mission fees as high as 30% ahead of a growing trend: The $26.8 billion online per order. There is, of course, the restaurants conceived only ordering market is the fast- gourmet pizza that patrons “The beauty is I can cre- for delivery or take-out. est-growing source of restau- ate concepts and if they have come to expect from Thousands of restaurants rant sales in the United Frato’s when they walk don’t work, I can move on are experimenting with States, according to David to try another one,” Kudrna through the door. But there these virtual spinoffs tucked Portalatin, a food industry said. “I will have lost weeks are also spicy chicken gyros inside their own kitchens. adviser for the NPD group. of work, but not large sums for Halal Kitchen, barbecued Others are opening “ghost Digital orders, while still of money.” chicken tenders for Tenderli- kitchens,” where all food is accounting for just 5% of cious, salmon grilled cheese prepared to-go. all restaurant orders, are Turn to DINING on Page 5C Health Travel New devices Bigfoot threaten to ‘researcher’ render the opens museum traditional dedicated to the stethoscope legendary biped obsolete in rural Georgia MORE MORE INSIDE 3C u INSIDE 2C u Sunday, October 27, 2019 l 2C The Gazette Holidays Carve cute or spooky pineapples for Halloween Forget carving pumpkins on Halloween this year. Instead, put a tropical twist on the holiday by making a scary or cute pineapple jack-o-lantern. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to make this cute decoration. Select the fruit: Look for a firm, under-ripe pineapple that is slightly green. This will make carving easier. Make sure your pineapple has a nice, full top. Cut the fruit: Slice off the top of the pineapple about an inch down from the leaves. Use a long knife to cut around the cir- cumference of the fruit leaving about a half inch behind. Scoop out the pineapple and keep it to enjoy in a fruit salad or as a snack while you make the jack- o-lantern. Associated Press Make a funny face: This is Bigfoot masks are on display at Expedition: Bigfoot! The Sasquatch Museum in Cherry Log, Ga., in August. The where you can get creative. Carve two triangle eyes and a mouth with teeth. Refrigerate until it’s dark museum’s owner, David Bakara, is a longtime member of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. He opened out and then add a tea light to illuminate your sweet the attraction in early 2016. and scary creation. Keep it in the refrigerator so it will last longer. Create a centerpiece: Try carving other fruits and veggies, such as tricolored peppers, apples, oranges and potatoes, into jack-o-lanterns with silly or scary faces and then display them together with the pine- apple as a centerpiece on your party table. —Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) For true believers Gear up Light your running path Georgia museum devoted to the legend of Bigfoot with the Nathan lamp By Paul Newberry elaborate display of Bigfoot lay- have long, red flowing hair. Some AP National Writer ing siege to a remote cabin, with are multicolored, almost like a The fall and early winter is a great time of the year a hatchet-wielding mannequin squirrel where’s there’s gray and to run—if only the sun would cooperate. Of course, it CHERRY LOG, GA. desperately trying to bar the door red and brown mixed together. doesn’t, and while you might not be sweating bullets long a bustling four- as two hairy paws burst over the Some of them have a very five minutes into your workout, you often have to do lane highway that winds top. Color-coded maps document human-like face. They just run it in the dark. through the north Geor- hundreds of alleged sightings, a the gamut.” Headlamps gia mountains, an unassum- towering reproduction depicts He’ll gladly tell you about the are fine, but they A a hairy 8-foot-tall beast, and the time he saw a pair of the elusive ing wooden structure breaks the famed 1967 video of an alleged beasts. don’t necessarily monotony of churches, billboards Sasquatch sighting plays on a In 2010, Bakara says, he was provide enough and stores selling kitschy knick- loop, along with harrowing recol- summoned by a Florida man who light, particularly knacks. if you’re going fast or running on tree-covered trails. lections from those who claim to had spotted strange creatures Once a BYOB supper club, it’s have encountered a Bigfoot. But here’s a solution that can be a big help: Nathan’s now ground zero in the search for on his property. Using a ther- Luna Fire chest/waist light. “The reason I didn’t shoot it is, mal imager, he and his team were a legendary beast. it was just too human,” a hunter Rather than fitting around your head, this 250- Welcome to Expedition: Big- able to make out a pair of crea- lumen lamp is designed to be worn around your says in one account. “I couldn’t tures emerging from a nearby foot! The Sasquatch Museum. pull the trigger because some- chest or waist. It’s easily adjustable, so you can point “I can remember my swamp. the light exactly where you need it. You can also thing told me this ain’t right.” “We took turns looking at great-grandmother talking about There’s even a glass case claim- remove the light from the strap and clip it onto your having a cabin in the woods, and them,” he says. “They finally fig- jacket or hydration pack. The lithium-ion battery ing to hold feces collected from a ured out we could see them, so she saw Sasquatch,” says Sherry Sasquatch in Oregon. is rechargeable via a USB port, and on a full charge Gaskinn of Villa Rica, Georgia, they left.” you’ll get a burn time of 25 hours. Believers continually add to Bakara could talk all day about who was driving by one after- the already ample collection. For trail runners, this is an excellent option to noon and had to stop in. “I’ve what’s become his life’s work but light up your whole path—not just where your head On a recent day, the mail carrier clams up on the most obvious always been curious.” delivered two casts of footprints is pointing. For those on the roads, you don’t need to questions: Her husband, Phillip Blevins, supposedly made by foreign Big- rely on those street lights anymore. And for everyone, What is Bigfoot? lets out a skeptical chuckle. foots. you can enjoy the cool running weather without wor- Where did it come from? “If it was up to me,” he says, “You want to see an Australian rying about the sun. “That’s a secret we’re not sup- “I’d already be on down the road.” cast?” Bakara asks, tearing into Price: $40, nathansports.com The owner of this intriguing posed to know about,” he replies —Jeff Banowetz, Tribune News Service the package. piece of Americana at the south- He has filled up the former ominously. ern edge of the Appalachians is supper club and is planning to Bakara implies that the crea- David Bakara, a longtime mem- expand his museum, which wel- tures are the unintended conse- ber of the Bigfoot Field Research- comes about 50,000 visitors a quence of a government experi- Study shows ers Organization who served in year. ment gone haywire, hinting that the Navy, drove long-haul trucks For those who think Bigfoot his life would be disrupted if he Regenerative molecules and tended bar before opening is a phenomenon confined to the ever went public with his entire the museum in early 2016 with Pacific Northwest, where that body of work. his wife, Malinda. grainy video from more than five Bakara has been inter- found in humans He’s looking to provide both decades ago gave Sasquatch its ested in Bigfoot since a young entertainment and enlighten- age, spurred on by early news Humans have the ability to regrow cartilage, a greatest brush with fame, Bakara ment in an area known for apple is quick to point out countless reports and the 1972 cult clas- new study has found.