Bay County restaurant offers salad bar, comfort meals and endless nostalgia 90 years later

STANDISH, MI – With the crackling vinyl sound playing throughout the dining area, working tabletop jukeboxes on tables and old advertisements and photographs on the walls, nostalgia is alive and well at a beloved restaurant.

Maintaining the old school charm from 1935, Wheeler’s Restaurant, 111 S. Main Street, is celebrating its 90 th anniversary this year, serving up the salad bar and comfort food customers crave.

Owner Adam Kroczaleski, 33, a Standish native, is proud to maintain the traditions so many local and traveling families associate with Wheeler’s.

“We can talk about the food, and we can talk about the interior, but it’s the customers that keep this place going,” Kroczaleski said. “It’s the people with those fond memories and they want those fond memories to continue or make