2020 Week of Service Black-Owned Business Spotlight - Leah & Louise

Located at 301 Camp Road in Charlotte, the name Leah & Louise honors Greg Collier’s late sister and grandmother, respectively. Greg and Subrina Colliers have taken a unique approach to their eatery, which features “Mississippi River Valley food” and “Memphis-to-New-Orleans-style cooking.”

Great food partnered with great service is a combination that Catering by Cordré’s Manny Cordray doesn’t believe customers always experience at every restaurant they visit. It’s an “element” lacking here and there in the hospitality industry, and something that ultimately inspired his business’ moniker.

“My mission is to inspire others to chase their dreams,” he stated. “You don’t have to be a rapper or play basketball or football. You can do whatever you want and accomplish your dreams. Be passionate and do everything from the heart – don’t just do it for money. You’re going to have days where you’re happy and excited and want to keep doing it and then days where you’re discouraged and want to give up and quit. Anything you do, be passionate about it. Chase the dream and the money will come.”

Over a decade ago, Jennifer Coble and her friend – a former caterer from the Northeast – recognized a need in the community to provide meals to a large group of local homeless women. It was then that the beginnings of Sweet Creations first started taking shape.

Three years ago, Mike Hargett was working a corporate job and had just about had enough of punching in numbers every day on an Excel spreadsheet. A former barista at Border’s Books, he began researching and learning how to open his own breakfast spot. Eventually, the Detour Coffeebar truck was launched.

“I’ve always been in the kitchen,” said Johnson, a South Carolina native who now owns Cuzzo’s Cuisine on Tuckaseegee Road and AMG Catering.

Thanks to support from Bank of America, Mert’s Heart & Soul – originally dubbed ‘Georgia on Tryon’ – found a home at 214 N. College Street, which is less than a five-minute walk from Spectrum Center in uptown Charlotte. Specializing in Southern style food, the origins of Mert’s stretch back almost two decades.

When Subrina and Greg Collier set out to replicate their Rock Hill-based restaurant The Yolk in the city of Charlotte, they knew operations would need to be altered a bit, based on the new location and clientele. Now two years later, Uptown Yolk is nestled into the friendly confines of 7th Street Market.

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