S P OT L I G H T
Fighting to Stay Afloat
Roadrunner Restaurant and Saloon is running the show By Peyton Clark
Roadrunner is an authentic Western establishment with karaoke nights, live bands and mechanical bull rides. (Photos by Pablo Robles)
The lively Roadrunner Restaurant and Saloon brings out the fun with karaoke nights, live bands and mechanical bull rides. But the COVID-19 pandemic has put a damper on everything, except for the New River establishment’s great food. This authentic Western establishment, like many other businesses and restaurants, had to shut down, reconfigure and adjust to stay afloat. It began providing customers with grocery boxes. Guests placed their orders
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in advance, which were highly recommended due to high demand, and then their grocery box was available for pickup at the end of the week for $85. Roadrunner Restaurant and Saloon's menu is all-around comfort food. Roadrunner created a huge list of many grocery items, like a Roadrunner provided a sugar cookie box, gallon of milk, a package of hoagie rolls, 1 which came with all the necessities to decopound of ground beef, pork chops, white rate 24 sugar cookies. With frosting and rice, angel hair pasta, cucumbers, toma- sprinkles, it was $25. toes, onions, avocados, potatoes. On August 7, the rowdy restaurant hostIt did similar con- ed a takeout rally to support its establishcepts with items ment and provide guests with a different from its menus. On way of receiving their food. a recent Sunday, the Guests showed up in vehicles, bikes and staff accepted break- vans, ready to indulge in old-school burgfast takeout orders, ers, fries and shakes, showing their support giving the option of with handmade signs. eggs (any style) with “We’ve been getting very creative during hand-breaded chick- this crazy time, and although it has been en fried steak topped crazy, it’s also allowed for us to expand our with sausage gravy, minds and ideas,” says Becky Mullins, the a choice of hash event coordinator of The Roadrunner Resbrowns or ranch taurant and Saloon. potatoes and choice “Recently, we did this ‘old-school drive of toast. To satisfy its thru’ where people came in on scooters, guests’ sweet tooth, bikes, cars, buses, vans and ordered burg-
Becky Mullins is the event coordinator of the Roadrunner saloon in New River.
