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Businesspeople in the region, past and present, have enjoyed breaking bread at local breakfast spots when conducting their meetings.
WHEN BUSINESS MEETS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY
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etworking plays a fundamental role in growing contacts for your business. In Fayetteville, there is no better place to build strong working relationships than local breakfast spots. The obvious instigator is coffee, caffeinated and poured fresh from table to table, allowing the conversation to flow, but more so building rapport during those energizing first hours helps set the tone for the workday. Many of Fayetteville’s breakfast groups have been meeting for years. Stephen Wheeler, president of Holmes Security Systems, has been meeting with a group of local community members from Snyder Memorial Baptist Church once a week for over 20 years. “We meet weekly to talk about >>
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a certain book or Bible study, and we’ve been doing it a long time,” said Wheeler. Brad Hurley with Hurley Insurance Group remembers the start of their group well. “We started meeting in the fall of 1998. I’ll never forget how old the group is because my son was born six months after we started. We’ve been a solid, tight-knit group ever since,” said Hurley. “We are all friends. We play golf together. We’ve done so many things and all support each other. It’s a good fellowship group.” Wheeler agreed, and added, “We have a great group made up of people in accounting, insurance, food processing, ministry and security. Some have retired, some are still active. Even during the COVID lockdown,
we still talked weekly even if we weren’t getting the big group together. We support each other.” As far as locations, the breakfast spots vary. Most remember being at a Fayetteville Young Professionals breakfast chat at K&W back in the FYP heyday, or at a local civic organization’s early morning meeting at Haymount Grill, or seeing business owners and community members from around downtown particularly the courthouse, or police departments at Horne’s Café or Big Dawg’s. Only K&W remains although their hours changed to no longer serve breakfast. Even still, there are more grills hot all around our county from Cedar Point Restaurant, a main fixture in Spring Lake for almost 50 years, and Lindy’s and Zorba’s, neighbors on Raeford See NETWORKING, page 11