Wade's Restaurant
Specialties
Wade’s is a quintessential meat and three! Our menu is focused around comfort food like mac and cheese, fried chicken, green beans, real mashed potatoes and our famous homemade yeast rolls. The menu changes daily and will feature 7-10 meats and 15-17 sides.
History
Established in 1947.
Wade’s was founded on March 6th, 1947 by Wade and Betty Lindsey when they purchased a small grocery store on South Pine Street called Mrs. May’s Grocery. In addition to selling groceries, there was also a small lunch counter where hot dogs, sandwiches and soup were sold to the workers from Draper Corporation and Duke Power. Sales for the first day of business for Wade and Betty Lindsey were $39.00! Around 1990 Wade’s began to narrow its focus towards the meat and vegetable area of the menu and Wade’s began to grow by leaps and bounds. It was also about this time that Wade’s began using their slogan: “Have You Had Your Veggies Today?”
Meet the Business Owner
Business owner information
Hamp L.
I was born in Spartanburg and have lived here all of my life. I attended Cooperative Elementary School, Evins Junior High School and Spartanburg High School. I graduated from Clemson University ( Go Tigers!) where I received a BS degree in Administrative Management. My two most cherished experiences at Clemson were 1) being a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity where I made some wonderful life long friends and 2) receiving the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award as a senior. It was during my junior year at Clemson that I began talking to my father about returning to take over the family restaurant. Although he had never said one word to me about doing this, I know that he was excited to know that Wade’s would continue into the future with a Lindsey at the helm. As it turned out, I graduated from Clemson in May of 1977 and on June 7, 1977 I was fully in charge of Wade’s Restaurant. I got a crash course in the real world during my first year out of college.