File #: R-167-24    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 4/11/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 4/24/2024 Final action: 4/24/2024
Title: Celebrating Miss Ruby Butler
Sponsors: John Hobbs III, Brittany Jones, Nick Komives, Cerssandra McPherson, Vanice Williams
Attachments: 1. Video: City Council 4/24/2024

 

Label

RIA:: Miss Ruby Butler

Hobbs, Jones, Komives, McPherson, Williams

 

Title

Celebrating Miss Ruby Butler

 

Summary

WHEREAS, Miss Ruby Butler recently closed the doors to Ruby’s Kitchen for the final time; retiring after 20 plus years of serving up “Southern Cooking Guaranteed to Satisfy”; and

WHEREAS, Miss Ruby, a self-proclaimed “homebody” in her youth, learned her culinary skills from her mother; and

WHEREAS, Miss Ruby retired from Chrysler in early 2000, and it was then that she fulfilled her lifelong dream of owning a restaurant; and

WHEREAS, Miss Ruby first opened a restaurant on Parkside Avenue, and in 2004 Ruby’s Kitchen opened in the Library Village Plaza on Dorr Street; eventually moving to its final location at 805 N. Reynolds Road; and

WHEREAS, Miss Ruby’s homemade soul food brought in folks from all around to enjoy everything from the meats and the sides, down to her famous peach cobbler; and

WHEREAS, entering the doors to Ruby’s Kitchen was like returning home; Miss Ruby’s hospitality was always warm and inviting; and

WHEREAS, though Miss Ruby admits that running a restaurant was not always easy, nonetheless she feels, “being a black woman and having a business… is so important.”; and

WHEREAS, Miss Ruby not only served her family legacy, she served it alongside of her own family.

NOW THEREFORE, Be it resolved that:

 

SECTION 1. that we celebrate Miss Ruby Butler for her 20 plus years serving fresh, southern, soul food and treating everyone like family.

 

Adopted:  April 24, 2024:  yeas 12, nays 0.

 

Attest:                                          

Julie A. Gibbons                                          Carrie Hartman

Clerk of Council                                          President of Council

 

Approved:                                                               April 24, 2024

Wade Kapszukiewicz

Mayor