SMYRNA RESTAURANT
OWNER SELLS MUSTANG
TO PAY HER EMPLOYEES
BY SHANNON BALLEW
When a restaurant owner was faced with
closing down, she decided to trade in her ride
to keep her doors open and continue to pay
her employees.
Vittles, a mainstay on South Cobb Drive in
Smyrna, has been popular with nearby
residents for decades. The restaurant was first
established in 1982, known for its home-style Southern
cuisine, before closing in 2018. The second
iteration opened last year with a new owner, Charity
Salyers.
Business was mostly booming in those first few
months, Salyers said, until the coronavirus pandemic
started affecting the local economy, with state and
local orders forcing the suspension of dine-in service
at restaurants.
After a very slow weekend, Vittles was closed for
two weeks, during which Salyers received many calls
from customers asking her to open the restaurant
again, she said.
“Most of my customers are elderly. They live in
the area and they depend on us for food. They come
in two or three times a day to eat,” Salyers said, “so
they were calling me — ‘We have nowhere to eat. We
can’t eat this fast food.’ — practically begging me to
open.”
Vittles has been offering takeout, curbside and
some delivery, but it still wasn’t enough to pay the bills
in late April, when restaurants were being hit the
hardest.
“I was kind of stuck, and for the two days prior, I
just didn’t know what I was going to do. It was either I
pay my bills, or I shut my door and lose everything
I’ve worked for,” Salyers said at the time. “I had just
gotten my car back in January. And I prayed about it,
and I went and just sold my car.”
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