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Levy Joins T-Rex Restaurant Venture

MINNEAPOLIS-Rainforest Café founder Steve Schussler will open first restaurant in Kansas City early next year; the partners plan up to eight units across the United States.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on June 16, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS-The founder of Rainforest café has just struck a partnership deal with Levy Restaurants to develop and operate their first “edutainment” concept: T-Rex.Restaurant and entertainment concept incubator Schussler Creative, owned by Rainforest founder Steve Schussler of Minneapolis, had what he calls a “key strategic decision” to bring in Levy Restaurants to manage all food, beverage and retail operations.

Together, he hopes they can develop the attraction to be a place for people to eat, shop, explore and discover at the interactive concept, which features the prehistoric predator, the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Designed with the elements of water, fire and ice, the experience comes to life in cascading waterfalls, bubbling geysers, animatronic dinosaurs, a real fossil dig site, a paleo laboratory and an ice cave. T-Rex intends to offer guests an adventure into prehistoric times while enjoying high-quality food.

The first restaurant will launch in Kansas City, MO in early 2006, near the Nascar speedway, Cabela’s and Warren Buffet’s Furniture Mart, an area expected to draw about 12 million to 15 million visitors per year.

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