GENE SIMMONS Defends "Rock Is Dead" Comment In KSHB TV Interview At Rock & Brews Kansas City
October 2, 2014, 10 years ago
Joel Nichols, correspondent for Kansas City's KSHB stopped by Rock & Brews to hang with KISS legend and franchine co-owner Gene Simmons who discussed the death of rock, his long-time support of Veterans, and rocked out to Sinatra's "Fly Me To The Moon".
Leslie Collins at the Kansas City Business Journal recently spoke with KISS legend Gene Simmons about his restaurant venture with bandmate Paul Stanley, Rock & Brews. An excerpt from the article is available below:
Rock & Brews prides itself on freshly made food and never uses frozen beef, an unusual quest in the restaurant business, said Kirk Williams, regional franchise partner for Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado.
Asked how many restaurants they plan to open in the next one to five years, Simmons said it's best not to focus on numbers.
"That's not the way to do it," Simmons said. "We want to go one step at a time and make sure the quality is there. You're only as good as your partner. You don't want to open up something from far away if you don't know who has skin in the game, who has roots in the local community, who cares about the local community and hires locally. The last thing we want to do is open too many and have any one of them not do well. The best advertising we can do is to make our bosses happy."Go to this location for the complete story.
Simmons and KISS bandmate Paul Stanley recently spent the morning with KOB Eyewitness News 4 to promote the new Rock & Brews location in Albuquerque, NM.
"It is actually a profound pleasure and honor to be in Albuquerque," said Gene Simmons, who said the Duke City was always on their list. "It's always been a place, you know, people stop in if they don't live here and love the community, because it's a million people so it's just big enough to be a city. Also, small enough to care about your neighbor."
