Taxes aside, today is Wichita’s favorite kind of day: A new burger restaurant is opening
Wichita loves burgers, so a day that includes the opening of a new burger restaurant is one worth noting.
Even if it is tax day.
Today — April 15 — is opening day for Wichita’s first Smalls Sliders restaurant, 1370 N. Greenwich. Its franchisee will put on an opening celebration at 10 a.m., and going forward, the restaurant’s hours will be 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
The new restaurant, part of a chain based in Atlanta that calls itself an “industry-disrupting cheeseburger slider concept,” specializes in slider-sized cheeseburgers that can be topped with bacon, queso, and a special mayo/mustard/ketchup concoction that the restaurant calls “Smace.”
The menu also features double sliders, grilled cheese sandwiches, waffle fries and milkshakes in three flavors. Customers also can get a 25-slider “party pack.”
If sliders aren’t enough of a draw, the first 100 people who visit the new restaurant on Tuesday will get a pair of free “Smorange” slides.
Smalls Sliders restaurants operate out of pre-fab metal buildings that are dropped onto sites. The east-side building was dropped at the Plazzio development in January and was initially supposed to be open by March 17. But snow and cold weather slowed construction, said franchisee Colton Sorlie.
The bright-orange restaurants don’t have indoor seating but they do have seats on an outdoor patio plus walk-up and drive-through windows.
Sorlie’s family has an agreement to open five Smalls Sliders restaurants in the Wichita area. The second one will open later this year just south of 37th Street North on the east side of Maize Road between Petland and Capitol Federal.
This story was originally published April 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM.
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