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In this on-going series of articles called Expense Account Dining, Bailey describes Leon's Café, located in Winston-Salem.
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Baily describes Jimmy Mac's Restaurant which is located in what was once the old post office in Bryson City. The restaurant is famous in the area for its list of twenty award-winning hamburgers.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 79 Issue 1, June 2011, p142-144, 146, 148, il Periodical Website
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Shane Cooper, who founded Defeet International Inc. in Hildebran, near Hickory, in 1993, is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's 2011 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. The company, which specializes in making bicycling socks, employs thirty-five people and projects 2011 revenues of $4.5 million.
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Mercer Design Group PC, a civil and structural engineering firm co-owned by Marvin Mercer and his wife Wendy, is a runner-up in the 2011 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Headquartered in Weaverville and founded in 2003, the company has faced tough years but is improving with projected revenues in 2011 of $650,000.
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Rhino Assembly Corp., co-owned by Dan Brooks and Leif Anderson, is a runner-up in the 2011 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Located in Charlotte and founded in 2000, the company specializes in providing customized tools for auto and aircraft manufacturers. Projected revenues for 2011 are $9.5 million, and the company employs a staff of nineteen.
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Jill Marcus and Karen Teed worked by day and cooked by night to get their business, Something Classic Catering & Cafes Inc., up and running. Headquartered in Charlotte, the company specializes in catering, for example, some of Charlotte's highest-profile events, and opening eight eateries. Founded in 1989, Something Classic employs 69 full-time and 112 part-time people. Projected revenues for 2011 are $5.8 million.
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Michael Jones used to manage factory hog farms but turned to smaller farming methods that humanely raise hogs that taste better and are hormone free.
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Entrepreneur, Dustin Miller, uses software and social media to sell vintage guitars.
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Sageworks Inc. CEO Brian Hamilton holds seminars with prisoners in North Carolina to discuss how they can start their own businesses and improve their lives.
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There are over eighty wineries in North Carolina, and in 2009 the Haw River Valley, covering 868-square-miles, became the state's third American Viticultural Area. This federal recognition is for the potential of an area to produce distinctive wines. Max Lloyd of Grove Winery discusses winemaking.
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Home-grown fried-seafood restaurants, like Catfish Cove and Riverview Inn, are thriving across the state with their mega-portion-plus-value meals. A number of them are now in the second- and third-generation of ownership. Bailey discusses the success of these restaurants through several generations.
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Libby Hill Seafood Restaurants, Inc. started in 1953 when Luke and Elizabeth Conrad opened the first restaurant on the outskirts of Greensboro. Today, the company has four in Greensboro and one each in five other North Carolina cities; the company remains headquartered in Greensboro. Owner-operators run the nine restaurants.
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A chance meeting in the 1940s between Dr. Richard Stelling, a Greensboro physician who formulated flavors in his basement, and Kermit L. Murphy, Sr., a local insurance salesman, led to the formation of a company, now called Mother Murphy's. The company is known for its high-end vanillas, in addition to the other 350 flavors it produces and sells. Its customer base extends from local bakeries to the military.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 4, Sept 2010, p160-162, 164-166, il Periodical Website
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Bailey, an award-winning restaurant critic and food writer, takes readers on a tour of North Carolina to find restaurants serving great steaks, including The Angus Barn (Raleigh), The Beefmastor Inn (Wilson), and the Homestead Steak House (Timberlake).
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 7, Dec 2010, p62-68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, il Periodical Website
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Doug Salkewicz, who founded Advanced Technical Welding, Inc. in Etowah in 1987, is Business North Carolina magazine's 2010 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. The company specializes in making emergency repairs via microscopic welds.
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