A Southern Season
A Southern Season is a gourmet emporium and mail-order store based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The store offers a large selection of gift baskets, specialty foods, wines, cheeses, coffees, teas, gourmet delicatessen foods, condiments, confections, cookware, utensils, and dinnerware. The store contains a cooking school, a restaurant, and a card and flower shop. A Southern Season also offers free daily gourmet food “tastings” to its walk-in customers.
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A Southern Season was created in 1975 by Michael Cooper Barefoot as a coffee roastery. In 1978, it was operating primarily as a retail store offering gourmet specialty food items in Chapel Hill. By 2003, it had moved up to a 59,000-square-foot (5,500 m2) space in Chapel Hill's University Mall, making it one of the largest specialty-only gourmet markets in the United States.
Revenues from all its business lines in 2005 were around $25 million.
On August 2, 2011, it was announced that ownership of A Southern Season would transfer to TC Capital Fund, a joint venture between Carrboro Capital Corporation and Tryon Capital Ventures, LLC[1], both companies local to the NC Triangle area.
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- A Southern Season retail store
- Weathervane, a restaurant located in the store
- CLASS—offered cooking classes in a specially-designed space in the store
- Web and catalog-based mail order based in Hillsborough, North Carolina (2.5 million catalogs distributed a year[2])
- "Taste! A Southern Season" store located in Raleigh-Durham International Airport, operated by The Paradies Shops[3]
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