Thomas Michael Liner is the Owner of Pioneer Family Restaurant in Archdale, NC.
Tell me a little about your restaurant and how you got started.
Opening a restaurant was a dream come true for me. When I was little my family owned a restaurant and I knew one day I wanted to open one. They owned a Freezette and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world. In August of 1987, my partner and I opened the Pioneer Family Restaurant. A few years later I bought my partner out. Then in 1997, I sold the restaurant. In 2003, the restaurant burned down and about a year later it was rebuilt in the same location. On July 24, 2009, I was approached to buy the restaurant back. I originally had no intentions of buying it back. But after thinking about a couple days I bought the restaurant back in August 2009.
So you didn’t originally want to buy it back? Why not?
