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My good friend, Rick Browne of “Barbecue America” on PBS, has launched a new project entitled A Century of Restaurants and because he has to travel to 100-year-old (and older!) restaurants all over the country and photograph them, he needs help funding the project. He has found a publisher and has rounded up about 25% of the funds needed, but needs more help with the production of the book. I am helping him with a donation and I urge everyone else to assist, especially restaurant people. Here’s Rick describing it:
I’m starting an exciting new project that will involve a book and later a TV series about America’s oldest restaurants. The book is tentatively titled: A Century of Restaurants, but that may change before it’s published. To be specific we’ll pick 100 century old restaurants from our list of 213 restaurants located in 50 states, and in fact some are 300 years old, a bunch are over 200, the rest have merely been serving up vittles for ten decades!
In a profession where the failure rate for restaurants is upwards of 60% after 3 to 5 years, these centenarian eateries stand way above their newer competitors. We’re going to try and find out why they’ve outlasted hundreds of thousands of other restaurants by visiting these centenarians in person and talking to the owners, chefs, wait staff, and (perhaps most importantly) customers, as to why they think their restaurant has survived and flourished in one of the most competitive businesses in the country. Oh, and yes, we’ll probably grab at bite at most of them as well.
I’ve launched the project on the Kickstarter website, a site which helps authors, movie makers, artists, and other creative folks find funding for their projects, and I would love you to go there, watch my short video, read about the project, and hopefully be inspired to throw a few bucks our way. Here is the web address.
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