Fryn' up decades of dining

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Justin Bovee started working at Fryn' Pan as a teenager, bussing tables.

"Just a kid that was bored in the summertime and needed a job to do something so I wasn't bugging my parents," Bovee said.

At the time he never thought working in the food industry would become a longtime career.

"I was going to go into the Army, be a policeman once I turned 18," Bovee said.

But over the years Bovee moved up the Fryn' Pan ranks from cleaning tables to ultimately being co-owner.

"I just felt like family. I came to work and it didn't feel like work if that makes sense," Bovee said.

According to its website, Fryn' Pan started as an offshoot of Country Kitchen.

Today there are seven Fryn' Pans: three in Sioux Falls, one in Yankton, two in North Dakota and one in Minnesota.

The East 10th location in Sioux Falls is in the spotlight right now.

That's because it's celebrating 50 years.

"This location has a ton of residential regular customers," Bovee said.

That includes Mark Narveson who lives in the neighborhood.

"I grew up on this side of town, and this always was the place," Narveson said.

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