The restaurant industry has gone through quite a few challenges since the pandemic. Many restaurants did not survive. And many workers in the industry did not return, even to those establishments that made it. Yet some restaurateurs are not only thriving but expanding. Mike Switzer interviews Steve Cook, owner of Saluda’s restaurant, Arroyo Tacos and Tequila, and Il Bucato Pizza in Columbia, S.C.
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest…..