restaurants (4)

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Cola Pettiford (courtesy)

Cola Pettiford is the owner of We Got Soul, a soul food restaurant located in Stone Mountain, Georgia that offers southern cooking at its best. “If you’re looking for a place that has delicious down-home cooking, excellent customer service with a smile, all at a great price, you’ve found it,” says Pettiford, who opened the restaurant because there was no other place nearby that sold down home cooking she liked to eat.

Here, Pettiford shares what it’s like to be a le

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Dinner platters combine a large portion of a protein, in this case grilled wild caught salmon, with a choice of several seasonal veggies (fresh grilled asparagus), grain (Mediterranean quinoa salad) and a sauce (yogurt herb) all prepared in two minutes and drive-thru ready. (Photo: Larry Olmsted)

Dinner platters combine a large portion of a protein, in this case grilled wild caught salmon, with a choice of several seasonal veggies (fresh grilled asparagus), grain (Mediterranean quinoa salad) and a sauce (yogurt herb) all prepared in two minutes and drive-thru ready.
(Photo: Larry Olmsted)

Looking for a quick and healthy meal on-the-go? NBA Star Ray Allen and his wife opened a healthy fast food restaurant in Miami and it might just be the healthiest fast food place in America.

The

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Courtesy of TGI Fridays

Mention TGI Fridays to its regular customers and they’ll have no trouble conjuring an image of the casual-dining chain: dark-wood interiors, kitschy antiques on the walls, plenty of noise and the standard pub grub of mozzarella sticks and strawberry daiquiris. This atmosphere has served the restaurant well for decades now—and why shouldn’t it? Isn’t TGI Fridays where people go after work to loosen their belts and knock back a few?

Sure—but maybe not for much longer.

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S. Truett Cathy

S. Truett Cathy, founder and chairman emeritus of Chick-fil-A, died today (Sept. 8) at 1:35 a.m., according to an announcement from the Atlanta-based restaurant chain. Cathy was 93.

Baptist Press will post a broadened obituary later today. A company-released obituary follows of Cathy, a Southern Baptist churchman known for his commitment to Chick-fil-A restaurants being closed on Sundays.

Cathy, who died peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones, was born March 14, 1921, in

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