A Southern Season
Encyclopedia
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.
. 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 59000 square feet (5,481.3 m²) space in Chapel Hill's University Mall, making it one of the largest specialty-only gourmet markets in the United States
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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, both companies local to the NC Triangle area.
Gourmet
Gourmet is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by elaborate preparations and presentations of large meals of small, often quite rich courses...
emporium
Marketplace
A marketplace is the space, actual, virtual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. The term is also used in a trademark law context to denote the actual consumer environment, ie. the 'real world' in which products and services are provided and consumed.-Marketplaces and street markets:A...
and mail-order store based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...
. 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.
History
A Southern Season was created in 1975 by Michael Cooper Barefoot as a coffee roasteryCoffee roasting
Roasting coffee transforms the chemical and physical properties of green coffee beans into roasted coffee products. The roasting process is what produces the characteristic flavor of coffee by causing the green coffee beans to expand and to change in color, taste, smell, and density...
. 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 59000 square feet (5,481.3 m²) space in Chapel Hill's University Mall, making it one of the largest specialty-only gourmet markets in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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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, both companies local to the NC Triangle area.
Offerings
- 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 CarolinaHillsborough, North CarolinaHillsborough is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,653 at the 2008 census. It is the county seat of Orange County....
(2.5 million catalogs distributed a yearhttp://www.southernseason.com/store_more.asp) - "Taste! A Southern Season" store located in Raleigh-Durham International AirportRaleigh-Durham International AirportRaleigh-Durham International Airport is a public international airport located 4.5 miles northeast of the town of Morrisville in suburban Wake County, North Carolina, United States. The airport covers and operates three runways, providing direct service to 40 domestic and international...
, operated by The Paradies ShopsThe Paradies ShopsThe Paradies Shops, Inc. operates stores in airports, hotels, and other locations throughout the United States and Canada. Locations include specialty stores and bookstores. The company was founded in 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia.-History:...
http://www.theparadiesshops.com