A local restaurant owner has created its own holiday — Wichita Hummus Day — with charity in mind.

A local restaurant owner has created its own holiday — Wichita Hummus Day — with charity in mind.

Meddys restaurants in Wichita are giving away free hummus on Saturday, September 23, in hopes that customers will donate to help a young girl who has leukemia and others like her.

While its opening has been pushed back a little, dirt work has started at the site of the new Meddys restaurant in downtown Wichita.

Businessman Alex Harb — who also owns Ribbit Computers — tells the WBJ that his planned new eatery near Douglas and Washington is on target to open in September.

A blind taste test for the best hummus in Wichita leaves Meddys #1

(Originally from Wichita Business Journal)

Review:

It was a blind taste test. We went to the restaurants and bought fresh hummus, brought it back and numbered the containers.

Alex Harb, the owner of Meddys in Wichita, has his eyes set on rolling out fast-casual Lebanese cuisine across the nation.

(Originally from Vice / Munchies)

Most, if not all, of the dozen immigrant-owned restaurants I’ve visited in the middle of the United States, were surviving day-to-day or hour-to-hour, often taking losses, gambling on a dream, gambling that their people would hold them down.