{"id":20315,"date":"2015-11-12T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=20315"},"modified":"2015-11-16T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:56:16","slug":"dmk-restaurants-grows-with-good-food-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/dmk-restaurants-grows-with-good-food-video\/","title":{"rendered":"DMK Restaurants grows with good food (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emiliana Molina\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Allow your taste buds to experience one of the fastest growing restaurant companies in Chicago. <a href=\"http:\/\/dmkrestaurants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DMK Restaurants<\/a> has nearly doubled its size every year since it opened in 2009 while America was recovering from a recession.<\/p>\n<p>Co-owners David Morton and Michael Kornick began the company with one employee in an attempt to redefine casual dinning. 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