His grandparents ran a well-known Kansas restaurant for decades. Now, it’s his turn.
If he’d known that someday he’d want to go into the restaurant business, says Quentin Seiler, he would have purchased his grandparents’ famous Colwich restaurant and catering business — Syl’s — before it was turned over to new owners a decade ago.
But he didn’t know, so Seiler — a competitive pitmaster and food trucker who learned what he knows about cooking and catering while working in the family restaurant — went searching for a new building when he decided he’d outgrown his food truck.
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Now, Seiler is on the verge of following in the footsteps of his late grandfather, Sylvester Seiler, and his grandmother, MaryJo Seiler. He’s opening a restaurant he’ll call Q’s Your Daddy BBQ & Catering in the building at 5125 N. Maize Road that is best known as the former home of Nancy’s Amazing Sandwiches. Owner Nancy Parish closed the restaurant, which had been in business for 16 years, in 2021.
Seiler, who is transitioning out of his job at a machine shop so that he can devote his full attention to the restaurant, said that it will include some nods to his grandparents’ business, which closed in 2023 after 47 years. (The space is now home to a business called The Gathering Space.)
He has the original Syl’s sign hanging in the new restaurant and says he’ll be smoking his meats on a 1992 smoker that his grandparents used in their restaurant.
“I grew up catering with them at Syl’s,” Seiler said. “That’s where I actually learned it from.”
Seiler’s interest in cooking started when he became involved with the competitive barbecue circuit and realized he was pretty good at smoking meat. He began winning lots of trophies and, as a joke, chose a taunting team name that included the first letter of his first name: Q’s Your Daddy.
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As tends to happen with successful pitmasters, Seiler began hearing from many friends and fans that he should sell his food.
“And then it just clicked,” he said. “The instinct kicked in to carry on grandpa’s legacy, and it just took off to the races.”
He opened his food truck three years ago and would set it up mostly in Colwich and small towns nearby. Occasionally, he’d bring the truck to the Wichita area for service, and his catering began to take off. He became the preferred food vendor at Hidden Vineyards, a wedding venue in Maize, and at Rustic Timbers, a wedding venue in Viola.
Business was booming, and Seiler decided he’d outgrown the food truck. Opening a restaurant was the next logical step, he said.
“Honestly, we needed the space, and it’s something we’ve wanted to do — transition over, expand and make it bigger and better,” he said.
Q’s Your Daddy will be a sit-down restaurant where people will order at the counter, take a number and wait for their food to be brought to their tables. It will serve Seiler’s famous brisket and other meats by the pound or as part of meal deals that will include sides like beans. He’ll also serve his popular “piggy mac,” which is macaroni and cheese with pulled pork.
The restaurant will be open for both lunch and dinner Thursdays through Saturdays. On Sunday mornings, Seiler said, he’ll try to attract a church crowd by serving traditional breakfast dishes. He may serve barbecue later in the day on Sundays but hasn’t decided yet.
Seiler said his daughters, 11 and 14, and his older sister will help out at the restaurant. His wife, Raeshel, will eventually, too, but at the moment she’s pregnant and expected to deliver the couple’s third daughter in July.
Seiler said that he plans to park the food truck once he’s finished up a few gigs that were on the calendar before he decided to open the restaurant.
Sometimes, he said, his family has questioned his sanity for deciding to get into the restaurant business, including his grandmother and longtime Syl’s Restaurant owner, MaryJo. (Grandfather Sylvester died in 2010.)
But he knows they’re behind him.
“My wife thinks I’m crazy,” he said. “Grandma thinks I’m crazy. But she’s very, very, very supportive.”
After Nancy’s Amazing Sandwiches closed, a restaurant called Mo’s A-Maize-N BBQ & Grill, owned by Eric King, took over the space. But it was short-lived. Then, in March 2025, High Hopes ICT dispensary owner Justin Lane said that he was opening a burger restaurant in the space and that he’d call it Bill’s Burger Joint.
In March of this year, Lane was indicted on more than 20 federal firearm and drug crimes following a raid of his home and several dispensary stores in November 2025. He was ordered in May to remain in custody pending trial, which is scheduled for September.
Bill’s Burger Joint never opened.
Contributing: Amy Rene Leiker of The Wichita Eagle
This story was originally published June 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM.
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