Get a look inside Kroger’s first restaurant 'Kitchen 1883'

Walk into Kroger’s first standalone restaurant in Union, Ky., and you would have no idea it’s owned by a grocer.“The vast majority of people who come in here, if they haven’t read about it, think this is a separate business,” Kitchen 1883 general manager Jay Denham told me. “A lot of them ask if I’m the owner.”Kitchen 1883 – it’s named after the year Barney Kroger founded his namesake grocery company in downtown Cincinnati – opene