Like a lot of ambitious bartenders, Jay Sanders had long kept a list of potential names in his head for the cocktail joint he aspired to eventually open. Drastic Measures was one of many. But once he found the space for his bar — in a small, old building in the small, old suburb of downtown Shawnee — Sanders knew that had to be the name. “For what we’re doing here, it just really resonated,” Sanders said during a recent happy hour. “We wanted to do cool, progressive drinks — things nobody else was doing in this area. But I didn’t want it to be so fancy that we weren’t still a neighborhood cocktail bar. So: drastic things, but in a measured way. Also, it’s a good pun on stirring drinks. “It wasn’t until later,” Sanders added, “that I learned ‘Drastic Measures’ is also the name of an album by the band Kansas.” Along with three other partners, Sanders opened Drastic Measures in the summer of 2020, an inopportune time for the drinks-only bar. But its reputation for excellent cocktails ...