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Greenfield Chamber/Main Street and Development is spearheading Restaurant Week March 25 to April 3 with cooperation from area restaurant owners.

This is the first time Restaurant Week has been held since 2019 because of the pandemic.

Formerly a Main Street Iowa event, Restaurant Week is now being exclusively held locally due to previous success.

All six of Greenfield’s eateries are participating: The Corner, Olive Branch Family Restaurant, Los Altos Mexican Restaurant, Greenfield Subway, Greenfield Bowl and Tiger Drive-In.

“After visiting with the restaurants, they enjoy doing it,” said Stacie Eshelman, executive director Greenfield Chamber/Main Street and Development. “They thought that if we did it in the spring, the first quarter of the year is hard for any small business, so it will get people back out.”

By dining at participating restaurants during Restaurant Week, participants can enter a drawing to win $50 in Greenbucks.

Pick up a card at any participating restaurant. The restaurant will mark diners’ cards. When cards are full they can be dropped in giveaway buckets at any of the participating restaurants. Cards must be filled out on the back and submitted by April 4 to enter the drawing. Multiple cards may be submitted.

The Free Press reached out to two of the participating eateries ahead of this event.

Jesse and Talli Ramey took ownership of The Corner early last summer and are thankful for the business their customers give them.

The Rameys say they haven’t quite put their “brand” on the business yet, compared to what their predecessors did, however that’s coming in the future with a new menu, kitchen upgrade, and more.

“New customers and the everyday patrons, they’ve all been very supportive. We’ve gotten really good feedback in a lot of areas and some opportunistic feedback,” Jesse Ramey said.

Katie Huff at Tiger Drive-In likes Restaurant Week because it gives people a chance to try all of the different places to eat in town, not just their favorite one or two.

“We’re very excited. It gives us a chance for people who don’t normally come to the Drive-In and normally go to other places to fill up the passport and give us a chance,” Huff said. “They find out we’re more than just burgers and fries. We have daily lunch specials, ice cream, and things like that.”

Huff commented that even though some may not realize it, Greenfield does have a lot of variety in options of places to eat for a town its size.

“You can go from a place where you can have tacos and margaritas to a great sandwich and a bowl of soup, a place for home-cooked ham balls or beef and noodles, go somewhere else where you can have a beer with your lunch,” Huff said. “I think there’s a good diversity of places you can go. This will help you kind of break out of your shell. I think, to fill up that passport, it gives people a chance to get out and see what restaurants have to offer in the area.”