THE CHANDLER ARIZONAN | WWW.CHANDLERNEWS.COM | SEPTEMBER 5, 2021
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Boyhood memories inspired Chandler eatery owners BY MALLORY GLEICH Contributor
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hen you think of the words “double” and “dutch,” what comes to mind? Do they conjure up an image of summer time, playing outside and jumping rope with friends from the neighborhood until the street lights came on? If so, Jason Key and Tom Montgomery had the right idea with the name of their latest concept, Double Dutch Kitchen + Cocktails, an American-style neighborhood gastropub that opened last month near Dobson and Germann roads in Chandler. Montgomery and Key grew up in the bar and restaurant business – and were friends back when their parents were running things. “Jason, me and my brother Steven have been friends for almost 20 years. My parents, who are from Ireland, owned Irish pubs and restaurants in the Bronx. Jason worked in restaurants like Gramercy Tavern in New York before we all moved
Double Dutch Kitchen + Cocktails not only offers a friendly environment but some dynamite cocktails and food menu to enjoy it by. (Special to the Arizonan) out to Arizona,” Montgomery said. The Double Dutch is the second restaurant that the trio has opened together. They opened The Kettle Black in down-
town Phoenix in 2016. Montgomery and his brother also own Tim Finnegan’s Irish Pub, a staple in Glendale that opened more than 15 years ago.
“We decided to open a spot in Chandler
Teams, tribes ready for your sports bets BY JILL R. DORSON Sports Handle
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ith companies like Caesars, FanDuel, and Penn National Gaming building out sportsbooks at professional sports venues across the Valley, fantasy sports betting already has come to Arizona with betting on games arriving Sept. 9. Only a last-minute effort by the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe stood in the way of sports betting going live that day. A hearing on a request for an emergency injunction to halt sports betting is set for Labor Day. (See page 31) Assuming the judge does not grant the request, Arizona is poised to become the biggest state in the West to launch live sports betting since the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Ama-
Stretching over 7,400 square feet, including an outdoor terrace, the FanDuel Sportsbook at Footprint Center will be fans’ one-stop-shop to enjoy Suns games and other sporting events around the world while placing wagers on the action. The sportsbook will feature five betting windows, and one VIP window, 40 HD televisions, a 35-foot video wall, an MVP Room and 26 self-service betting kiosks. The FanDuel Sportsbook will be open daily for patrons to place wagers on a wide variety of events throughout the year. (Courtesy of FanDuel)
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teur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in May 2018. The Arizona Department of Gaming is targeting the first day of the NFL season to launch the first operators. Many of the biggest, most well-known sports betting operators will be offering odds and taking bets. The Arizona launch will be the fourth in the U.S. this year – unless either Wyoming or South Dakota, both which are also moving toward offering live sports betting, get there first. In January, operators went live online in both Michigan and Virginia, and two North Carolina tribal casinos began taking bets in March. As legal sports betting has spread from Nevada to more than 30 other U.S. juris-
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