Hayward Spears Sr. arrived in Kansas with little more than a family recipe and a $500 goal, eventually opening a pit so small it barely fit a standard kitchen table.
Decades later, that same grit defines the Shawnee flagship on 75th Street, which has operated as the brand’s sole hub since relocating from its original eastern county roots in 2014.
While the setting has modernized to serve the growing residential populations of De Soto and Grey Oaks, the fundamental physics of the kitchen remain frozen in 1972…