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Cafe No Fur and other Vegas restaurants adapt to pandemic

  • April 19, 2020
  • Blog, Vegan News
When Kevin Chan of Cafe No Fur opened the Chinatown restaurant two years ago, his biggest fear was keeping up with the likes of Burger King who were planning on adding Impossible Burger to its fast food repertoire.
 
Times have clearly changed.
 
Chan, who was mentored by Chef Kenny Chye of Chef Kenny’s Asian Vegas Restaurant, and eventually ran the now shuttered VegeWay North, has long struggled to figure out a way to make vegan fast food mainstream.
 
“It raised the question to me: ‘How are we able to offer vegan fast food at such affordable pricing like Burger King,” says the owner. “I knew it had to be done eventually, but just put it in the back of my head since the cafe was doing fine at the time.”
 
It turns out the forced closure of restaurants across Nevada made him change his entire business model … and get more aligned with fast food behemoths.
Vegan restaurants in Las Vegas pivot due to coronavirus mandatory shutdown and social distancing. For more vegan news in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com
 
Cafe No Fur closed down its dining area and pivoted its food service to the pick-up window, which was originally planned to be Chan’s other project — Almond Milk Creamery’s vegan ice cream spot — and turned it into Cafe No Fur’s temporary home.
 
“I decided the best thing to do would be to use our huge parking lot and the pick-up window to make a sort of outdoor spot where customers can order, wait and eat in their cars kind of like a vegan Sonic sort of thing,” he explains. “Everything was cool, but a mainstream vegan drive-in is not Sonic without mainstream Sonic prices.”
 
So, with the dining rooms closed, Chan decided to give the extra savings back to his customers and dropped all of the menu prices.
Vegan restaurants in Las Vegas pivot due to coronavirus mandatory shutdown and social distancing. For more vegan news in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com
 
There’s even more of a silver lining to the cheaper menu — he hopes that the new prices can get more non-vegans trying dishes like the Philly Cheesesteak of the Impossible Double Double and get them “hooked.”
 
He’s also getting Cafe No Fur more involved in the community; the restaurant is giving away 100 Impossible burgers to hospitals around the city.
 
Open 10 a.m – 1 a.m daily.
 

Simply Pure launches a food truck

Chef Stacey Dougan and her restaurant, Simply Pure, have also made some changes. Aside from operating her Container Park location, she’s also tossed her hat into the food truck arena.

A month before the shutdown, Dougan partnered with LV.Net, a local internet provider, who had a food truck that wasn’t being used. The president of LV.Net, Marty Mizrahi, is vegan and a fan of Simply Pure … and the rest is history. 

Vegan restaurants in Las Vegas pivot due to coronavirus mandatory shutdown and social distancing. For more vegan news in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com

“I call it our ‘Noah’s Arc on Wheels’ because we acquired the food truck about a month before the mandatory shutdown,” says Dougan. “The one main goal I wanted to make sure I achieved in 2020 was to have more fun and I must say that having a food truck has been fun.”

She and her team have created a new menu, thanks to the truck’s cooking equipment that doesn’t exist at Simply Pure’s brick-and-mortar location, namely a grill, flat top and a fryer.

Her team created new offerings to accompany the truck’s roll out, including the jackfruit Philly cheesesteak sandwich, which sells out weekly. 

“We have come together as a team to learn and grow in the food truck space and it’s been exciting.”

You can catch the Simply Pure/LV.Net food truck at weekends parked at the Llama Lot (Fremont and 9th, East Fremont neighborhood) noon – 3 p.m. Simply Pure at Container park is open Weds. – Sun. from noon – 3 p.m. Call ahead to order: 702-810-5641

They run daily specials on their Facebook and Instagram, too.

In addition, Dougan also offers meal prep services.

Tarantino’s Vegan and other vegan restaurants offer family meals

It wasn’t the best timing for Tarantino’s Vegan to open its all-vegan Italian restaurant. But, the new restaurant is keeping up with the pandemic by offering family meal deals. Every meal deal serves four to six people and includes a half-pan of salad with dressing, your choice of a gallon of soup or french fries and grilled garlic bread. Meal deals start at only $50. Offerings are: $50 for five sandwiches; $55 for pasta bar that includes your choice of pasta, sauce, veggies and two proteins; and $65 for five entrees and a half-pan of pasta and sauce. Call 725-777-3888 to order.

Violette’s Vegan’s meal deals focus on themes — breakfast, appetizers, Mexican and country comfort food and start at $40. 

VeggiEat Xpress is offering two meal deals through the end of April — a $35 that includes sushi, stir-fry, udon and a sandwich, and one for $75 that includes sushi, noodles, beef and broccoli, fried rice and three sandwiches. 

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We have a comprehensive guide to vegan restaurants in Las Vegas that are open during the shutdown, as well as vegan-friendly restaurants in Las Vegas open now.

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