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Silva* Star changes
Bonanza buffet menu
By Gerry Beltz
Staff Reporter
The Bonanza restaurant at 48th
Street and Highway 2 is closed. The
Silver Star Steak and Buffet (5551 S.
48th St.) is in, and with it comes all
you-can-eat steak.
Mike Kritikos, general manager of
The Silver Star, said the new buffet
arrangements came from a group
project.
“This is a concept that we put to
gether through the other managers,
staff and myself,” Kritikos said,
“through other concepts that we had
noticed.”
Not only does Silver Star feature
all-you-can-eat steak (six ounce USD A
top sirloin cuts, Kritikos said), but also
offers fried chicken, shrimp and fish
on the buffet line.
Silver Star has kept the hot food bar
and salad bar from its Bonanza days,
as well as the Bonanza employees.
Kritikos said dropping the Bonanza
name was the key to bringing Silver
Star up and running.
“We don’t have to pay any more
royalties,” he said. “Roughly, between
royalties, ads and promotions, that was
about 10 percent of our sales.
“We feature a better value by sav
ing on royalties and offering custom
ers more.”
Silver Star also offers barbecue ribs
on Saturdays, roast beef on Sundays,
and freshly carved ham most nights of
the week, and more changes are on the
way, Kritikos said.
“We’ll be changing the menu
around,” he said, “but we don’t have a
lot of the details yet.”
A few new items haven’t even ar
rived yet, Kritikos said.
“The signs were supposed to be in
and haven’t arrived yet,” he said.
Other than the lack of outdoor ad
vertising, things have been going
smoothly since the Silver Star opened
its doors last Wednesday, Kritikos said.
“So far, so good,” he said. “It
catches some people off guard, but we
walk and talk them through the new
place and try to make them feel a bit
more comfortable.
“We have yet to receive a bad com
ment.”
A CHEF AT The Silver Star Steak and Buffet prepares several six-ounce sirloin steaks. The buffet also
serves eight-ounce grilled chicken breasts.__ __
New restaurant ‘meats’ standards for good food
By Gerry Beltz
Restaurant Critic
You can’t beat all the meat you
can eat.
At the newly opened Silver Star
Steak and Buffet (the former home
of Bonanza at 5551 S. 48th St.), you
can eat steak until the cows come
home, so to speak.
Actually, the whole place has -
gone buffet-style; it offers fried
chicken, breaded fish (which tastes
suspiciously like Long John Silver’s
fish) and chicken-fried steak as well.
Also included are mashed potatoes,
two kinds of gravy, shrimp, baked
potatoes and com dogs.
The salad bar and hot food bar
also duplicate Bonanza days, and
thank goodness they didn’t change.
The salad bar was (as always) ter
rific, and the hot bar offered spa
ghetti and some VERY tasty meat
balls in barbecue sauce.
The six ounce top sirloins were
ready on demand and came with
some yummy hash browns (unless
you request to exclude them).
I sampled a little of everything
(except the chicken, which looked
pretty scary). On the up-side, the
steak was very good, and the shrimp
and mashed potatoes tasted excel- !
lent as well. The service rated top
notch, too.
Down-side: the com dogs were
cold, and the chicken-fried steak
was a little greasy.
Lunch at the Silver Star runs
$5.99 per person, and dinner costs
$7.99 each. Senior citizens and chil
dren can get discounts.
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Concert fee
will benefit
cheerleader
From Staff Reports
A benefit concert for a UNL
cheerleader who injured her neck
last week could spell financial re
lief for her family.
Tracy Jensen, a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln junior from
Lyons, injured her neck last
Wednesday during practice while
attempting a round-off to a back
handspring to a single back tuck..
Jensen is a two-year member of
the Husker Yell Squad and member
of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Her
sorority sisters, together with the
Royal Grove nightclub and radio
stations KIBZ-FM (106.3) The
Blaze and KKNB-FM (104.1) The
Point, are presenting a concert
Thursday to benefit Jensen.
“I felt we had to do something,”
said Rick Hughes, entertainment
director at the Royal Grove.
Chronic Bliss, Far From No
where and headliner band Ivory Star
—who are also from Lyons—will
perform. The 19-and-over show
starts at 9 p.m. The cost is $5, with
all proceeds going to benefit Jensen.
New TV guidelines propose
restrictions for children
WASHINGTON (AP) — TV
shows would be lumped into six broad
categories to guide parents in decid
ing what programs are suitable for their
children to watch, under a TV indus
try ratings plan outlined by broadcast
ers Tuesday.
The ratings would include catego
ries of “TV-G,” suitable for all audi
ences, to “TV-M,” for mature audi
ences only, under the plan described
by broadcasters, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity. The system would
also flag children’s shows, using a “K”
rating.
The plan is being fine tuned, broad
casters said, cautioning that there may
be changes to the ratings categories and
their descriptions before a final ratings
system is unveiled next week.
Children’s advocacy groups and
others who have opposed this approach
are not likely to be satisfied. They con
tend that the proposed system is too
vague and would give parents little help
in deciding what their children should
or shouldn’t watch.
The TV industry has said it plans
to begin rating broadcast, cable and
public TV shows by January.
News and sports programs would
be exempt from the ratings. One of the
biggest issues the TV industry is try
ing to resolve is which programs will
be entitled to the news exemption.
Under the proposed plan, shows 1
would be rated using the following cat- I
egories: “K,” material suitable for chil
dren of all ages; “K-7,” material suit
able for children 7 and older; “TV-G,”
material suitable for all audiences;
“TV-PG,” parental guidance is sug- \
gested; “TV-14,” material may be in
appropriate for children under 14; and
“TV-M,” for mature audiences only.
Kathryn Montgomery, president of
the Center for Media Education, a
children’s advocacy group, doesn’t like
the proposal, particularly the “TV-PG” \
and “TV-14” ratings.
“Parents don’t know why a show
gets one of those ratings. Is it just be- j
cause a little saucy language was used i
or because there was a lot of disturb
ing, graphic violence?” she said.
Montgomery likened the TV rat
ings plan to having a food labeling sys
tem that tells people “there may be
something harmful in the product, but
doesn’t say what it is.”
Specific definitions of each ratings
category are being worked out. But
broadcasters said a “TV-PG” rating
would .mean “the program may contain
infrequent coarse language, limited
violence, some suggestive sexual dia
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