Amanda: My name is Amanda Moon Callahan and welcome to Sister's Restaurant in Salem, South Carolina.

About five years ago, my parents were looking for their next steps they live down in Fort Lauderdale, Florida live in a busy lifestyle working 80 hours a week and they always wanted to own a breakfast and lunch place.

And so my parents relocated bought Sisters Restaurant it was named Sisters Restaurant and it felt like it was perfect because they had four daughters.

So I'm the oldest and they bought Sisters Restaurant and now I'm one of the sisters.

I think you know eaten a bunch at breakfast places around the area.

I think the one thing that we do really well here is that we make all of our orders fresh to order.

So there's no hot boxes of bacon.

There's no pre cooked sausage.

Everything is made to order.

It tastes like it came right out to Grandma's kitchen.

I think if South Carolina was a breakfast dish served at Sisters Restaurant, it would definitely be our country breakfast.

So freshly cooked biscuits split open, served with ham and scrambled eggs.

And then smothered in gravy.

Little home fries on the side.

Grilled with some onions.

I'm telling you that's in South Carolina.

The biscuits are incredible.

The sausage gravy heavenly.

And yeah, I think that we've just always stuck to the principle of fresh cooked.

Never waiting around in a hot box freshly made to order and getting out food as fast as possible.

So you got a lot of crews stopping in and they need quick convenient and filling breakfasts and lunches.

So we serve that at the same time as serving some of our really awesome retirement communities all sorts of kind of gated Lake Kiwi Communities here and they can still come in and get eggs Benedict, fresh fruit cups on the side.

And so I think that that's the the blends that makes it feel like this is a restaurant for everybody is that you can still come in and get good down home cooking at the same time of getting really fresh, unique foods as well.

One of the unique things that a lot of our locals and regulars take part in is dropping off a book in our library.

So if you head on back into the dining room, what you'll find is several rows of books.

You can drop off your books pick up a book.

So it's really, I know that when I'm finished reading my books, I bring them in here and take some new ones off the racks.

I'm not exactly sure how it started.

But we've kept the tradition going for several years.

And it's always really nice to see when somebody walks in the door and brings us a fresh load books.

And so it's a it's definitely a family atmosphere here, whether it's kids or bringing in your grandparents.

This is definitely the place that when come to visit family, you're going to bring up my favorite little breakfast spot and everybody brings their family, it's always nice meeting extended family from visits for the summer.

You know, we get a lot of folks who are coming to Lake Jocassee.

Devil's Fork State Park is just down the road.

And so we get a lot of people who are Googling up the trails and hiking and then they come over here and grab lunch or grab breakfast on their way to it.

And so it's really, a one stop fits all kind of place.

like supporting locally owned, family run businesses is the bread and butter of keeping the small towns alive.

This is one of the only restaurants that really exists in Salem, South Carolina, that's not really a chain.

There's a couple other small family owned places.

It's not just we're just serving food, you know, it's really about we know everybody's name when they come in.

We're serving of awesome families, little kids that come in, who grow up and we see them come in from week to week.

So it's really a wonderful thing to be a part of.