Eating Disorders: Kruse And Muir

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Kruse And Muir

Roger Knapp has been in the restaurant business since he was fourteen years old, working with his mother and father in Red Knapp’s Dairy Bar. After attending college for two and a half years and serving in the military services, Roger returned to Rochester, Michigan, and in 1962 purchased and operated Red Knapp’s Dairy Bar. He leased the building from his father. Red Knapp’s Dairy Bar has been an institution in Rochester and is known throughout the metropolitan area. In 1971, Roger sold the dairy bar to his brother, Gerald Knapp, who currently operates it. Chuck Muer, of the famed Charley’s Crab restaurants, and Bill Kruse began their friendship back in 1972 when Bill was hired by Chuck as an Assistant Dining Room Manager. Over the years, Bill and Chuck became very dear friends who shared a passion for great food and good times. Their time spent sitting in a duck blind sharing a brandy and a cigar, fishing off the back of a boat, or traveling throughout the country in search of new and interesting ideas for use in their own restaurants, provided the two with countless hours to develop a shared vision for what a truly great neighborhood restaurant ought to be.