Retail and Hospitality

Bite Squad restaurant delivery service is expanding to Easley and Powdersville and offering customers who order between Jan. 25 and Feb. 28 a complimentary one-year membership.

Greenville Technical College’s new Center for Culinary and Hospitality Innovation (CHI) will anchor the Poe West development in the Village of West Greenville, the school and developer announced Jan. 10.

Famous Toastery Founder and CEO Robert Maynard: "In this unfortunate situation, the local owner was no longer able to run the restaurant. The landlord is actively looking for tenants and Famous Toastery would be open to transferring the lease to a qualified franchisee. The Famous Toastery corporate team would love to grow its presence in Greenville with an experienced franchisee able to reopen this location and spearhead additional development in Greenville."

After more than two decades jump-starting and bolstering Greenville’s downtown restaurant scene, Carl Sobocinski, owner of Soby’s New South Cuisine and president of restaurant...

After a months-long hunt for the right location, The Whale GVL has signed a lease for a 2,400-square-foot space at 1108 S. Main St. in new The Green apartment complex near Fluor Field.

Vino Volo will make GSP the first airport to have its Vino Volo MarketBar, which will serve wine, beer, and gourmet food in a wine country casual and modern setting.

Spartanburg's revered Montgomery Building, filled with memories, is again open to the public. After nearly two years of restoration and updating, the 94-year-old building at...

“The key to our success has been maintaining the strong team that we have that stays hands-on, including the owners," says Bruce Wise, vice president of restaurant operations of Larkin's Restaurants.

“I would be dishonest to say it’s been an easy first year,” says David Howard, president of Neighborhood Dining Group. “We’re not hitting our projected anticipated sales goal, but we’re also ambitious and very optimistic.”

With a 4,000-square-foot, truck-accessible, climate-controlled warehouse housing at least a thousand cases of wine from 75 or more international producers less than 10 miles from downtown Greenville, Mission Grape is poised to do what other Charleston-based distributors can’t.

As food trends change, Eggs Up Grill proves that there is still a place for family-style home cooking in every neighborhood. The restaurant has over...

“We are still seeing the local restaurant and retail concepts calling Main Street home, but we have observed more and more out-of-market concepts entering downtown,” says John Odom, senior associate broker with Avison Young.

It’s been four years since Independence, Kansas-based Magnolia Scents’ owner Brian Hight decided to open a second location of his candle, bath, and body...

Upstate Business Journal spotlight: An interview with Warren Griffith of Fuel With this issue of Upstate Business Journal being dedicated to the food and beverage industry, we...

Havana Kitchen, from the owners of Tropical Grille, will open this December in the 7,200-square-foot restaurant at 1133 Woodruff Road left vacant since Mimi's Cafe closed in 2014.