Kim Halloran, president of the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association, says she hasn't felt this much excitement about restaurants in at least six or seven years.

Kansas City-based Next Move Healthcare will use the first acquisition in its history to expand into a new staffing area. Next Move co-founder and CEO John Nolan shares the details.

Three entities tied to Kansas City-based Noble Health Corp. have filed for bankruptcy. The parent company emerged as a new player in the hospital management and ownership industry in late 2019 and aimed to reinvent rural care.

CHEP Services LLC is laying off 99 employees from its Kansas City facility at 1501 Southern Road. CHEP Services is part of CHEP, a global supply-chain logistics company that owns and manages a pool of about 300 million reusable pallets, crates and containers. It has more than 750 service centers, including the one in Kansas City, where it repairs and cleans pallets and containers for reuse. Companywide, CHEP employs 12,500 people, and its customer base includes brands such as Procter & Gamble, Sysco…

One local startup says its only corporate account was at Silicon Valley Bank. The bank also had a number of venture capital firms as customers, including one that made sizable investments in Kansas City companies.

Co-founder Brian Goldman Ruiz says patrons had been nudging the taqueria and market to expand, and Westport offered the ideal spot.