BY JACKSON SCHNEIDER
MANHATTAN, Kan. - A unique Manhattan eatery celebrated its first birthday recently, and considering the times, that's a pretty special milestone.
Guilty Biscuit, a fast-casual-style restaurant on Manhattan's west side offers biscuits, biscuit sandwiches, and several other unique cuisine options that throw a twist in a traditional breakfast staple.
"It's really, kind of quietly become something that I'm really unbelievably proud of," said Operator Evan Grier. "The creation of the whole concept of Guilty biscuit was done absolutely the wrong way, from what you would normally want to do when you're starting up a brand."
According to Grier, he and his colleagues cooked up Guilty Biscuit on a whim during the summer of 2020, and after just a few short weeks were baking up biscuits.
"There wasn't a lot of market research, there wasn't a lot of due diligence, there wasn't a lot of time to just think and stew on all the small decisions and details that need to go in to having a successful restaurant brand," said Grier. "We, and I, believed and trusted in our team to be able to pull that off on the fly and they did."
Grier believes he works with the best operations team in town, and with Guilty's success being evidence to that, he's confident in what lies ahead for the business, even if there's still some people struggling to wrap their head around having biscuits for every meal and not just breakfast, myself included.
"The neat thing about Guilty Biscuit is that the Guilty Biscuit brand isn't fully cooked," said Grier with a smirk. "So we still get to play and have fun inside the framework of the name Guilty biscuit, but I would encourage our patrons and fans in the community to continue to look and watch what we're doing there because that's really where we get to have some fun and play a little bit."
Even if you're not a "Biscuit-lover," Guilty offers plenty of substitutes, like buns instead.
Grier also added that although Guilty biscuit isn't really a breakfast-style restaurant, they just might be exploring an earlier opening on weekends for fans who want biscuits earlier in the day.
"We've listened to our customers, we hear you, we just need to get staffed up and we'll start focusing on some breakfast hours on the weekends and see how it goes," said Grier.
For Guilty fans, or people still getting familiar with one of Manhattan's newer, unique eateries, you can learn more about Guilty Biscuit on their website HERE.