The moment Frank Gorey knew he was going to buy the Carolina Brothers Pit BBQ restaurant came down to what appeared like a high stakes negotiation.
“We came up with a fair value of what we would pay. I wrote it down on a piece of paper … and slid it across the table,” Frank said.
The seller – Danny Hurdle, the founder of Carolina Brothers – picked up the paper, looked at it and had to chuckle. It was the same figure he had chosen to sell the place for.
“It was the exact same amount,” Frank recalled. “We said, ‘We have a deal. We’re going to make this work.’”
A little background may explain why it seems fate had a hand in Gorey becoming the owner of the popular barbecue restaurant on Ashburn Road.
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