Hunky’s changes hands
3 business partners buy the 2 iconic hamburger restaurants, promise no changes DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com Three business partners have purchased Hunky’s on Cedar Springs Road and its second location in the Bishop Arts District from Rick Barton, who founded Hunkys with his brother David in 1984.
Jeffrey Yarbrough, one of the new owners, said he’s been eating at Hunky’s since the 1980s when he worked at Women’s Wear Daily at the Apparel Mart.
And while he was joking when he declared, “We’re not turning this into McDonald’s,” he wasn’t really joking at all. He and his business partners are promising nothing will change with the iconic restaurant that has been a Cedar Springs landmark and a haven for LGTQ people for decades.
Yarbrough has had plenty of experience as a restaurant and bar owner, having previously owned Art Bar and Club Clearview in Deep Ellum.
