Self-Made
Feb 06, 2021
4 minutes
-G.M.
Photography by
Kevin A. Roberts
IT WAS CERTAINLY crafty of Matt Ratz to launch UKRAFT, a health-based sandwich/ wrap/salad concept in a low-risk food truck, but it wasn’t until the food truck-based 9 Mile Garden took off that UKRAFT’s business did as well. Pandemic be damned, Ratz and brother Mike Ratz will open their first brick-and-mortar store downtown, in Peabody Plaza, in early January.
I owned Laclede Street Bar & Grill when building owner [Chris Sedlak] sold it to the group who opened the first Shack there. But even though I was young, 32, breaking up fights and worrying about who was of age started getting old. Getting to bed at 5 in morning was getting old. I began talking to Chris,
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