After a two-year hiatus from the restaurant business, Beth and Jerry Kizhnerman are making another go of it.
They had owned Smith Street Diner in Greensboro, but COVID-19 made the business too much of a struggle because of customer limitations and the small size of the eatery.
Now, they’re ready to open Gate City Provisions Eatery and Market.
“It’s going to be soups, sandwiches, salads, baked goods, scratch-made, in-house like we’ve done several of her other restaurants,” Beth Kizhnerman said in a WFMY report Wednesday.
It will look different in that it will offer a counter-service style of dining, but if you have a hankering to the New Orleans Style Gumbo they used to offer, rest assured it will be on the new restaurant’s menu.
Smith Street Diner was what Kizhnerman termed “an icon for the Greensboro community,” with a clientele of locals and even out-of-towners who would eat there regularly. The Kizhnermans are hoping the new site will catch on and draw regulars too.
Lingering pandemic fallout, though, continues to haunt.
“Everything just seems to take a little longer,” Kizhnerman said. “Then, of course, labor issues. We’re not fully staffed. We have a couple of people. Then we’ll just sort of have to adapt.”
The counter-service method was chosen as an option to help them get through the labor shortage.
The new restaurant should open this month, WFMY reported.
