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Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: Mike Pray and Jake Trummer, Friendship House

Friendship and food. That’s what a person can expect to find in a special restaurant and bakery in a pretty small town setting in a northeast Kansas community. This enterprise has also significantly expanded its catering business in the region.

Friendship House is a restaurant, bakery and catering business based in Wamego, Kansas.

Mike Pray and Jake Trummer are co-owners of the Friendship House in Wamego, Kansas. The rich history of this eating establishment goes back to the 1980s.

In 1988, an old Dutch windmill was relocated into Wamego’s City Park and used as a site to grind flour. The production of the stone-ground wheat flour gave birth to an idea:  Why not bake the flour into a finished product for Wamego’s visitors and residents?  Three Wamego women purchased a house adjoining the city park to establish such a place.

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