They'd come to Frontier Pies to celebrate birthdays, missionaries, families."įrontier Pies' success began to turn in the late 1990s, when a glut of national chain restaurants found the Utah market. It appealed to a wide spectrum of people. "It was a good family-style restaurant, where you got a lot of product for the price. "Frontier Pies was a great concept when it came out," he said. But it is also, in part at least, a tribute to a Utah landmark. It is a guide for aspiring entrepreneurs, Christensen said. He's writing a book about his journey with the company - an instructional tome about buying, operating and closing a business. By then, Christensen had deeded the restaurant to the on-site manager, folded the Frontier Pies corporation and moved on to another, separate venture, the Iceberg Drive Inn.īut Frontier Pies has left its mark on Christensen. North Temple, closed its doors in mid-December. "From the tax man, to the vendors, to meeting customers, to maintaining the buildings. "There's not an experience I didn't have," he said.
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Like many "learning experiences," Christensen said his years with the Utah family-style restaurant chain - first as an employee at age 18, then as its owner from 1996 until late 2002 - represent the full spectrum of emotions. Now that he's had time to reflect, Kelly Christensen says he's grateful for the experiences he had at the helm of Frontier Pies, which saw its last restaurant shuttered last month.
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