Iowa River Power Restaurant team joins Highlander Hotel Supper Club

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa River Power Restaurant business owner is offering work to all who lost their jobs when the restaurant closed in 2023. The team has partnered with the Highlander Hotel in Iowa City to revive the hotel’s supper club.

Angela Harrington, owner and operator of the highlander Hotel, has long been interested in bringing The Supper Club back, it gives the restaurant staff a chance to get back to work.

”Everybody is invited to come back, almost everyone is coming back,” Danise Petsel, owner of the Iowa Power Restaurant, said.

She’s says she’s happy to help her old team.

“Everybody gets distraught when you know you’re losing your job,” Petsel said.

Many of the menu items and its brunch service will be returning as part of the Supper Club. The Highlander Hotel will be handling bar services and the rest of the hotel’s business, while the Iowa River Power team works exclusively on catering.

The supper club opens March 24th. The restaurant will be open throughout the week with full dinner services Thursdays through Sundays.

Harrington has been renovating the hotel over the last several years, says she’s excited to revive the Supper Club.

She calls the sudden availability of the restaurant’s staff a blessing in disguise.

”It’s actually been incredibly joyful, and I’m really looking forward to having another entrepreneur in the building,” Harrington said.

Petsel was originally planning to retire after the restaurant closed in November, but her team kept her going.

“We’ve all just worked together for so long that I was ready to retire, but they wanted to stay together,” Petsel said.

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