Jim Clary is the co-owner of Crossroads Restaurant in High Point, NC. It is a Christian themed, family restaurant.
Tell me a little bit about yourself and how you started your business.
I run Crossroads Restaurant with my wife, Jeanne. We named our restaurant Crossroads because we were at a crossroads in our life. I had just lost my job at The Home Depot and my wife had worked in accounting but, she felt it was time leave her job. We decided to take the leap of faith and start a restaurant. We originally opened up in Archdale, NC about a year ago. We had a problem with the lease on that building and we were forced to close after a few months. But it turned out to be a blessing, a couple months later we were able to find another location and reopen. It just worked out for us, the owner of the building had a Mexican restaurant, a small chain that had 5 locations, ready to move into the building, but he liked our business plan better. We are a Christian family restaurant and it was important to us to be that. Since we don’t serve alcohol we converted the full bar in the new location to a dessert bar. Our passion is serving people.