After more than 57 years in business, we will be serving our last meal on Wednesday, September 16, 2020. With a heavy heart, we must close our doors. We are so grateful for the many customers that we have served over the years. So many of you have become friends, and we have memories that will last a lifetime. We will miss the smiles, laughter, and conversations over a plate of BBQ and a cold glass of homemade sweet tea. Bill and Marie Spoon, my grandfather and grandmother, opened Spoons when South Blvd was a 2-lane dirt road, then called Pineville Road. I began bussing tables at the age of 10, worked my way up to the steam table by age 13, and bought Spoon’s in 2006, one year before my best bud, my Papaw, passed away. Over the years, our food, labor intensive process, and the legend my grandparents began so many decades ago have become an antique. If you’ve been a customer over the years, you remember the lines that wrapped around the building. Those lines have diminished as time has passed, and each year has become substantially harder to keep our doors open. 2020 has proven hard for everyone, but has truly been detrimental to small businesses like us that were already barely making ends meet. Despite every attempt to hang on as long as we could, we simply aren’t able to any longer. As hard of a decision this was to make, I know it’s what my grandfather would want me to do. I hope he’s smiling down from Heaven, knowing I served our Eastern NC BBQ with the same love and passion as he did. I often had 70-80 hour work weeks, but when you have passion, you have drive, and this restaurant and it’s legacy will always be a part of my family and I. My kids loved coming to work with me, and watching them run up and down the front hall, fists full of hushpuppies, is something I’ll always treasure. We began our foundation Serving Spoons in this restaurant, and with countless volunteers, we fed nearly 4,000 meals to the homeless in our area. Spoon’s BBQ is something I’m proud of, and I feel has touched so many lives along the way. We have always strived to treat the businessmen who stopped by for lunch and left a hefty tip the same as the many regular homeless who stopped by, offering only a handshake and a ‘thank you’ to pay for their meal. Charlotte, we will miss serving you. We thank you for being a part of our lives, for enjoying BBQ as much as we have, and for all of the many memories we have made along the way. Please join us this week. With the current mandate, we are operating curbside only, but we would love to serve you one last time.
Steve Spoon Jr., Staff and Family
