| History |
| At the age of 20, Joseph H. Boer immigrated to the United States from Holland. He attended cook and waiter trade school and was employed in Switzerland as a Commis De Rang and in several first class hotels and restaurants as a waiter apprentice in Holland. He worked as a steward and caterer at the Muehlbach Hotel in Kansas City and at the Ralph Gaines Colony Steakhouse as assistant manager. Joseph also managed the Meadow Brook Country Club in Kansas City, and opened Sam Cohen's Cork Club in Topeka, Kansas. At the age of 26, Joseph leased the Luau Room of the Mai Tai Resort in the Osage Beach naming his 3rd floor restaurant, The Top Deck. Two years later, he opened Lefty's Little Chef's Steakhouse on the Bagnell Dam Strip where the onion rings and batter fried lobster tail originated thus becoming his signature items. After his fifth year at Bagnell Dam, he opened the first Potted Steer Restaurant in the Westgate Lanes Bowling Alley in Jefferson City as well as a sandwich shop next to Lefty's Steakhouse. A third restaurant called The Inn opened in Lake Ozark. Joseph closed the two restaurants and attended the University of Missouri for 3 1/2 years where he studied Business Administration. In 1972, he again started a new restaurant by purchasing the Grand Glaize Cafe in Osage Beach, now known as The Potted Steer Restaurant. In 1984, our sister restaurant, The Blue Heron opened it's doors in Lake Ozark. |
| Joseph H. Boer Owner Blue Heron and Potted Steer Restaurants |
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