Made With Love: Chef David Reyes Joins Mystic Cafe
Mystic Café has a new chef! Coming to us from Waha Bar and Grill, David Reyes brings a unique background and a wealth of culinary knowledge that’s sure to change the way we know Mystic. In honor of International Chef’s Day yesterday (10/20), we sat down with David to introduce him to our community. Come […]
The Ultimate Fall Food Tour
Our favorite season is finally here (sorry, summer!), and you know what that means: cozy comfort food and absolutely no shame in going back for seconds. We took one for the team this week, sampling our way through the fall favorites across all Happy Day restaurants to find the dishes worth falling for. We judged […]
Who’s Your Farmer? Step Inside the New Happy Day Local Market
Recent food recalls have raised a question in almost every home in America: What am I feeding my family? At Happy Day, we’re answering with Happy Day Local, an initiative built on partnerships with local farmers and producers right here in our valley. By partnering with these producers and farmers, we have been able to […]
Would You Like Fries With That Life Lesson?
What do Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and I have in common? We both got our start working at McDonalds! Now, do him and I both probably wish we could have skipped the grease and crabby customers and gone straight into an office job? Well, 17-year-old me would have said yes, but 25-year-old me is grateful for […]
If It’s Broken, Call Stan.
This week, The Happy Hour is sharing a unique story, one that we thought everyone should be familiar with. It started around Christmas, the most magical time of year. Happy Day hosted their annual company Christmas party in 1984, and the maintenance guy had just been fired. Not necessarily the best opening to any old […]
Fighting Fire with Food
When a little spark turns into a big wildfire, hundreds of firefighters are deployed to battle the blaze. They spend long days in heavy equipment, navigating rough terrain and working in intense heat and smoke. The physical demands are enormous and keeping them fueled is an important part of the mission. That’s where Happy Day […]
Spring Valley Tree Farm
Just east of Troy, ID, there are 29 acres full of Christmas trees, pumpkins, and endless types of produce. Spring Valley Tree Farm is just the kind of place that’s easy to fall in love with, which is exactly how Annette and Paul Brusven like it. “Farming is in the Brusven blood,” Annette says. Both […]
Klein Ventures
In the Lewiston Orchards, there are two and a third acres that Jessica Klein and her family have turned into a small, self-sufficient world of its own. It may seem like a big operation now, but it didn’t start that way. When the Klein family bought the land about 5 years ago, it came with […]
Wilson Banner Ranch
For more than 130 years, the Wilson family has worked the same ground near Chief Timothy. Today, Erik Wilson runs the ranch in partnership with his sister, Colleene, as the fourth generation to carry it forward. It’s a place best known around the valley for pumpkins and cider, but that reputation is really just the […]
Lewiston vs. Philly, Round Two.
As everyone knows by now, there is a rivalry brewing over a sandwich, and it’s happening right here in Lewiston, Idaho of all places. On Saturday, August 22nd, we’re going to out-cheesesteak the city that invented the cheesesteak. AGAIN. Happy Day Restaurants is once again partnering with the Boys and Girls Club to break a […]