The Driftwood Story
Built from family, faith, and one big idea.
This isn’t random restaurant branding. It started with people.
Driftwood is part of GLK Restaurants LLC, a family-built restaurant group that grew from Gage Klein’s vision to create something real by the water. What started as one teenager’s dream, carried forward with Kris Klein, became a place where food, family, and local memory all meet. The brand should feel bigger now, but the reason it matters is still personal.
What Driftwood Became
A local hangout brand with food at the center.
Burgers, wings, pizza, desserts, sunsets, chapter energy, and the feeling that something fun is already happening.
Origin
The lake made the first chapter real.
Brand Direction
Now it grows beyond one place.
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How It Started
One dream became the foundation.
Gage Klein wanted to build something special, inspired by his grandfather’s footsteps and backed by a family that believed the idea could become real. With Kris Klein, that dream turned into GLK Restaurants and the first Driftwood chapter at the lake.
What Matters
No gimmicks. Just honest food and a place people remember.
That part of the story should never get lost as the brand grows. Driftwood works because the food feels real, the people feel welcoming, and the whole place feels like it belongs to the community instead of being dropped in from somewhere else.
Founder Energy
Gage Klein
The original vision behind building something people could gather around, eat at, and remember.
Co-Founder
Kris Klein
The other half of carrying the idea into something real, operational, and built to last.
What Driftwood Is Now
More than one restaurant. More than one mood.
The brand is growing into a master identity with different chapters underneath it. The lake chapter carries sunsets and patio energy. The fairgrounds chapter pushes brighter, louder motion. Same heart. Different flavor.
What Comes Next
Build the universe without losing the roots.
Every new chapter should feel bigger in branding and clearer in personality, but it should still trace back to the same family-built reason Driftwood started in the first place.