Family Style Cooking Restaurant For Sale

Spaulding County and Central Georgia

Homestyle Country Cooking Restaurant

Operating for years, this is a local Classic!

Home Style Restaurant For Sale

A set Reputation - Known as a Favorite since the 70's

Country Style Cooking holds well under heat lamps.... Minimal Waste

Huge Comfortable Dining Room
Seats the Busloads that Frequent this Restaurant

Ready to Sell Quickly!

Sales of 1.2 Million make this a Valuable Business...

Well run and with food costs in line should net an owner operator 180 to 240 annually.

Currently Absentee Owners with Management in Place.

1,150,000 Includes Building, Property and small Cottage!

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The Atlanta Metro Area
is one of the Fastest Growing Populations in the US!

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University of Georgia Griffin Campus - Griffin Georgia

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Beautiful Orchard Hill Park

Spalding County has the largest population in
the McIntosh Trail Region (62,185 in 2006),
thanks in part to the county’s proximity
to metropolitan Atlanta; Spalding is just 30 miles
south of Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport,
and just 15 miles south of the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
In recent years, the county has advanced as
a business and industrial center,
with particularly strong growth in the service
and retail industries.

Many home owners have also begun locating here, s
earching for urban amenities within a small town atmosphere.
Though also the region’s largest city, the county seat of Griffin
has a population estimated at only 23,451 (Census, 2000).

However, numerous regional facilities such as Spalding Regional Hospital
and Griffin Tech, serve to draw people and businesses to the Griffin area.

The city is currently engaged in a strong effort to redevelop
its central business district, and is listed as a primary stop along
the proposed route for passenger rail between Atlanta and Macon.

Geographic Location:
Spalding County is located in the west-central
part of Georgia and encompasses 201 square miles.

Bordered by Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry,
Butts, Lamar, Pike, and Meriwether counties,
Spalding County lies 40 miles south of downtown
Atlanta and 55 miles northwest of Macon.

Spalding County is a part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

Climate:

Rainfall: 53 inches annual average

Temperatures:
62° Fahrenheit annual average
45° F average winter
79° F average summer

Population:

Griffin: 23,451
Orchard Hill: 239
Sunnyside: 213
Spalding County: 58,417

Spalding County

The land which is now Spalding County was claimed in the 1540’s
by Spaniards as part of Florida. Then, in 1629,
England declared the land part of South Carolina.
Not until 1764 was this area an official part
of the colony called Georgia.

Led by Chief McIntosh, the Creek Indians ceded all land between the Flint
and Ocmulgee Rivers and north to the Chattahoochee River
on January 8, 1821, in the First Treaty of Indian Springs.

Two years later, the treaty was declared invalid because of rumors
of bribery and coercion. Chief McIntosh signed another treaty with the white man
and was subsequently executed by a faction of the tribe opposed to giving away lands.

Although no Creek settlements existed in Spalding, the familiar McIntosh Road
was an important trail leading to Indian Springs, a meeting place for Indians.
The Springs’ highly sulfured waters were thought to have healing powers.

After the treaty, five counties were created by the Georgia General Assembly:
Monroe, Henry, Fayette, Houston and Dooly. The next year, Pike County was carved
from Monroe and Henry. Not until December 20, 1851, was Spalding County founded.
It was created from parts of Pike, Henry, and Fayette counties.

Griffin Historical Perspective

Early leaders were desperate to settle the newly acquired land, so it was given away
in a lottery system. Winners almost always used their 202.5 acre lots for farming,
especially cotton. The only way to transport goods to Macon, the nearest market,
was by wagon. Better transportation was a necessity. The solution to the problem
was tracks, rails and locomotion.

The Monroe Railroad, owned by General Lewis Lawrence Griffin, received authority
to build a line from Macon to Forsyth in 1833. More charters were granted to other companies.
Tracks were planned to connect Macon to Savannah, Augusta to Madison and Chattanooga
to a tiny town called Terminus.

General Griffin envisioned a town that would prosper at the crossings of a North-South
line and a tract running East-West. After determining where these railroads would meet,
he bought 800 acres in Pike County from Bartholomew Still. Griffin made a plan for
the new town which included wide roadways, plots for six churches, two schools,
parade grounds, and a cemetery.

William Leak bought the first acre on June 8, 1840
for the tremendous sum of $1000.00. In 1842, the first steam engine
came through town.The railroad attracted cotton growers who supported merchants in town.

Soon, professional people were settling in a place which was wilderness only a few years before.
Griffin was officially incorporated on December 28, 1843. That same year, Marthasville
(once Terminus) was incorporated, and in two years would be renamed Atlanta.

The Depression of 1843 halted the Monroe Railroad’s construction.

Plans of an East-West line to connect in Griffin were forgotten.
After the Monroe Railroad was sold under court order, the Georgia Railroad’s line
was extended to Atlanta, not Griffin, as the General had hoped. In 1855, a fire destroyed
an entire block on the east side of Hill Street.

But also in that year, the town emerged
from the depression, cotton flourished once again,
and business and population boomed.Spalding County
The land which is now Spalding County was claimed in the 1540’s
by Spaniards as part of Florida.

Then, in 1629, England declared
the land part of South Carolina. Not until 1764 was this area an official part
of the colony called Georgia. Led by Chief McIntosh,
the Creek Indians ceded all land between the Flint and
Ocmulgee Rivers and north to the Chattahoochee River on January 8, 1821,
in the First Treaty of Indian Springs.

Although no Creek settlements existed in Spalding,
the familiar McIntosh Road was an important trail leading to
Indian Springs, a meeting place for Indians.
The Springs’ highly sulfured waters were thought to have healing powers.

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Evolution of Southern cuisine

The most notable influences come from African,
Native American, British, Irish, French, and Spanish cuisines.

Soul food, Creole, Cajun, Lowcountry, and Floribbean
are examples of Southern cuisine.

In more recent history, elements of Southern cuisine
have spread north, having an effect on the development of
other types of American cuisine.

The food of the American South is quite multicultural.
Many items like squash, tomatoes, corn
(and its derivatives, including grits),
as well as the practice of deep pit barbecuing
have been inherited from the southeastern Native American
tribes like the Caddo, Choctaw, and Seminole.
Many foods associated with sugar, flour, milk, eggs
(many kinds of baking or dairy products like breads and cheeses)
are more associated with Europe.

The South's propensity for a full breakfast
(as opposed to a Continental one with a simple bread item and drink)
is derived from the British fry up,
although it was altered substantially.
Much of Cajun/Creole cuisine is based on France,
and on Spain to a lesser extent.

Floribbean is more Spanish-based with obvious Caribbean influences,
while Tex-Mex has considerable Mexican and native tribes touches.

To a far greater degree than anyone realizes,
several of the most important food dishes of
the Southeastern Indians live on today is the "soul food"
eaten by all races of Southerners.

Hominy, for example, is still eaten ...
Sofkee live on as grits ... cornbread [is] used by Southern cooks ...
Indian fritters ... variously known as "hoe cake," ...
or "Johnny cake." ... Indians boiled cornbread
is present in Southern cuisine as "corn meal dumplings,"
... and as "hush puppies," ... Southerners cook their beans
and field peas by boiling them, as did the Indians ...
like the Indians they cure their meat and smoke it over hickory coals.

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