The menu includes typical breakfast items such as eggs, pancakes and cereal. 'With the food truck, it's pretty common to look for people who placed an order and say 'it's them people over there',' said Kevin. The restaurant is called 'Them People at the Airport Café.' They want their place to be distinctive and, if the name of the place is any indication, they're off to a good start. Their goal was to get it up and running prior to Air Choice One beginning commercial air service to and from Chicago on Nov. They said they've thought about having their own restaurant and decided to try it when they saw there was an opportunity at the airport. 'And especially during RAGBRAI,' said Kevin. Rucker and her husband, Kevin, have operated a food truck for the past three years and have enjoyed success at events such as Thursday on Main in Clear Lake and Friday Night Live in Mason City. And that's how it became a restaurant,' she said. 'Yep, he said, and if people like them, we're going to open a restaurant.

'One day, my dad told me to get up out of bed and start making cheeseburgers. 'It was just a bar when they first had it,' said Rucker. Her parents, Wayne and Mary Howard, ran the Town Pump restaurant in Clear Lake from 1986 to 1996.

MASON CITY | Stacy Rucker, co-owner of the new café at Mason City Municipal Airport, is no stranger to the restaurant business.

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