![]() ![]() ![]() JC remained in Boone running the produce and county ham operation. JC built a new country ham facility which opened in 1967. Brothers Howard, Joe, Neil and Olan were all working from the new Charlotte based warehouse. In the year 1961, the Goodnight brothers built a new state of the art food distribution warehouse on Wilkerson Boulevard in Charlotte. After WWII all the brothers, excluding JC, moved off the mountain to start other divisions of Goodnight Brothers. History: In the 1930’s the brothers were buying produce in Watauga County and selling it to stores and restaurants down the mountain. Mission: AppalaChai! is produced using only the finest organic ingredients. Tommy taught Katie how to make chai when they first started dating and she also makes amazing chai now too! Tommy and Joel now produce approximately 50-100 gallons of concentrate per week while Katie and Tommy work on sales, distribution, marketing and customer service. After many "meetings" on the disc golf course and brewing numerous small batches, adding and subtracting gram by gram of Tommy's friend's family recipe, they finally tweaked out what is now known as AppalaChai! When Joel and Tommy eventually got stuck on how to package and create the business officially, Katie came on board to kickstart the operation. They decided to fine tune a recipe that they could share with the public. Joel also made chai often, as well as many other medicinal teas. ![]() Tommy had been making chai nearly every day since he learned an Indian friend's generation old family recipe 10+ years ago. Joel and Tommy met in the summer of 2012 chatting in between sets of the Town Pump Tavern's Tuesday night open jams and discussed topics such as herbal remedies and natural healing over some good local craft brews. They work hard and are an integral part of the Sweet Lake family.History: AppalaChai! was founded in Black Mountain, NC by Kathryn Ames, Tommy Winant, and Joel "Windfox" Boyle in January of 2014. We love being able to create a unique dining experience with creative dishes that are made from real ingredients. We love how excited people get when they see The Hoss (our signature sandwich of biscuit, chicken, bacon, egg, gravy, cheese) arrive in front of them. We love using local and organic ingredients, making everything in house from scratch, providing top-notch comfort food to hungry diners. It’s hard work, but we love our business. After a few years of extremely hard work, we decided that we were indeed insane, and that we should do it again, this time across the valley, down the street from where my parents still live in Draper. We opened in a small space near downtown Salt Lake City. ![]() Having grown up in Texas, what else would we do but things like homemade biscuits, fried chicken, and of course, the popular fresh mint limeades. So I went back to my roots and developed a food menu of things that I love. It gained popularity over the years and eventually we decided to turn it into a brick and mortar store. Wanting to start a seasonal food business that we could do at summer events, I came up with a fresh mint limeade and started selling at farmers markets and county fairs. We got our start at the farmers market in 2009. ![]()
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