I grew up next to the Ward Parkway Mall Smaks. Nearly everyday of summer vacation, my working Mom left us two dollars each for lunch at Smaks. Two burgers and fries.
My high school friend, Pat, worked at Wylie’s Burger Basket on Wornall. On Friday nights, they closed at 10. We would wait a half hour, then swing by and Pat would open up the doors. We spend the evening drinking beer and frying our own burgers!

I was younger than 10 years old when they went out of business but I vividly remember eating at the Smacks at Indian Springs but also eating at another in Kansas City, Kansas. It was either off of Parallel or Leavenworth Road and was near a bank over there (Westgate State Bank maybe??).
 
Jason B.

There was a Smaks in the Wyandotte plaza shopping center parking lot.  78th and State avenue in Kansas City Kansas.

Was that Smaks located where the Chinese restaurant is now?  It is in the freestanding building near State Avenue.  My son and I ate there a year ago when we were in the area.

https://www.flatlandkc.org/eats-drinks/happened-smaks https://www.flatlandkc.or…drinks/happened-smaks/

Looks like no-one can post a live link. [:)]

Country club dairy should have been around 60th and troost, unless they had a second retail  location. Our milkman delivered Country Club milk and dairy products.
As I remember, the CC dairy exploded in true KC fashion.
Let me work on my memories.
This guy says 56& Troost-
 http://www.kclibrary.org/?q=kchistory/country-club-dairy-and-rockhurst-high-school The Country Club Dairy and Rockhurst High School | Kansas City Public Library
 
The Country Club Dairy and Rockhurst High School In 1954-55, when I was a freshman at Rockhurst High School, the students often walked home by way of the Country Club Dairy at 56th & Troost. The inside of the dairy faced west and was bright from the outside sun shining on the glassed front. It was a great place to sit at the counter and talk. I ordered a chocolate malt every time I stopped there. I had to keep this a secret because I didn’t want to be accused of spoiling my dinner.
Late one afternoon, a fellow student who happened to be black (Negro in those days) was refused service there. I remember being angry at the time, maybe because our principal suggested we avoid the dairy until he had time to “look into it.”
After a discussion he had with the dairy management, no one was refused service. The result was one of the earliest examples of integration in Kansas City. Money talked even then.
Kevin GrattonApril 1, 2008
Note: Rockhurst High was then situated on the campus of Rockhurst College. It moved far south on State Line sometime later.
 

yes indeed! Smak’s was awesome. There was one in the Forest Mall in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in the late 70s.

Does anyone remember the Country Club Dairy around 38th or31st and Troost in Kansas City. This was back in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. They had excellent malts.

My father was an assistant manager of a Smacks in North Kansas City MO.  I remember going there after hours and getting to check out the kitchen.  I remember all of the different burger options they offered in their burger bar menu.  It was called something like = Create your own burger I think.  They had quite a variety of choices.

Hi !    I worked at Smak’s in Topeka KS from 1965-66.  My boss’s name was Jim Duncan. Do you remember or know anything about him?
 
 

I worked at Smaks in Topeka on west 21st Street, between 1966 – 1970. I remember one night that all the employees went a block away to my folks house to take cover from a tornado.

Not only do I remember Smaks, I remember it vividly since the burgers were cheap and juicy (long before Wendy’s was ‘Hot and Juicy’).   It was a great time to be a kid and Wyandotte Plaza had everything you could want growing up.    Grocery Store (Kroger) 5 & 10 (TG&Y), couple of clothing stores, my bank, a donut shop (they offered a texas sized glazed donut that was about 8 inches across), a hobby store (Eddie’s), a tavern (Julies) and a Western Auto store!     Smaks was located at the shopping center at 78th and State Avenue (Wyandotte Plaza), stand alone restaurant.   I could chow down on two or three of those burgers and you didn’t have to have anything to drink!     Hated when McD bought ’em out and closed ’em down.

Also remember the Griff’s at the shopping center at 82nd and State avenue (Westlake?) that went under before Smaks did.   Ah the days of living without worries.

There were a bunch of Smacks around KC in the 60’s -70’s.  95th & Mission in Prairie Village, the place started off as something else, ?? House? I don’t remember what, and Smacks moved in.

I think they had one on Metcalf too, I remember a Red Barn on Metcalf.

All these memories are making me hungry!  We frequented Smak’s on Wornell Road in the Waldo area when I was a young girl.  I loved their fried chicken.  Didn’t they have a character called “Shmoo” or something like that?
Allen’s Drive In – no where better in the world for pork tenderloin sandwiches and hot fudge sundaes after church.  Does anyone remember a little drive-in place called “Mark 90”?  I went to Boone Elementary School and it was across the street from there on Wornall Road.  I believe it was named for the Lucky Strike Lanes bowling alley just behind it. It was one of those places where you could eat for $0.30, 19 cents for the burger, a dime for the coke, and a penny for a piece of bubble gum afterwards. Those places don’t exist anymore! 
When I take my family back home now, we go to Smoke Stack BBQ, I believe at 89th and Wornall. Best BBQ in the world, bar none (imho).  Love the Red Barn, too, for their kids chicken dinner that came in a red shaped box.
Any memories of these places, I would love to hear.  I love and miss KC.  Go Chiefs!
                                                              Sincerely,
                                                              KCJudy

I’m a Kansas side boy, Oakdog, but Zaatar knows her way around NKC.  She probably worked at some of those places. [:)]
Welcome to RF. There’s a bunch of KC nostalgia around here including the evergreen Italian Steak sandwich thread…
 http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/Italian-Steak-Sandwiches-m9894.aspx Italian Steak Sandwiches
which-YAY!-has moved up to #1 on google search.
    We’ve also had a few discussions about In-A-Tub and other deep fried tacos from around KC and Kansas.

There was a Smaks in the Wyandotte plaza shopping center parking lot.  78th and State avenue in Kansas City Kansas.

Now this brings back some memories. I started working at the Allens Drive In in Topeka in Jan 1968. Was stationed at Forbes AFB at the time. After my discharge in July of that year went to work at the SMAKS at, I thing, 1410 N. Burlington in KC North. Across the ASB bridge.
Worked there untill November of 68.
One Smak-a-roo please….