From a location that by any measure is considered small, Herman Brown thinks he has a pretty good vantage point of the bigger picture.
“With the recent prices in food going up and things like that, business has been kind of slow.”
It’s something any business owner and cook, and Brown is both, notices.
He opened Tha Neighborhood Kitchen at the height of the pandemic. Two years later, he says his little soul food place in Joppa is facing a new challenge.
“The economy right now, gas prices and the feds going up on percentage of the dollar, people are not spending like they used to,” Brown said.
Brown says to stay open in an area with few restaurants, he works to keep costs low. Payroll is manageable because he and his business partner Katrina Cheney are the employees.
“The store prices are way up,” Brown said. “Our supply chain tries to work with us,” he says. But Brown adds his small business…
