Dec 09
Karen Duffy, Missouri Restaurateur of 2009 (along with partner Tim Kirby) as designated by the Missouri Restaurant Association, has been in business at Euclid and McPherson in St. Louis since 1972. “Duff’s is a way of life; I wouldn’t know how to open a new restaurant today,” says Karen. “We started with nothing. We borrowed on our credit card to start Duff’s and got our silverware from the Goodwill and bought a used cooler from O’Connell’s Irish Pub that we still use. Today, people are opening million-dollar restaurants. But I love the business. Every day you think that you have everything figured out, but you don’t. It’s a hard, hard business.”
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