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The Red and Black • Friday, April 27, 1990 • 3
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THE DEPARTMENT OF MINORITY
SERVICES AND PROGRAMS
AND
THE BLACK AFFAIRS COUNCIL
WOULD LIKE TO INVITE RISING SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS
AND SENIORS TO APPLY FOR THE MINORITY
ASSISTANT PEER PROGRAM (MAP) - FORMERLY BIG
BROTHER/BIG SISTER PROGRAM.
APPLICATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF MINORITY SERVICES AND PROGRAMS
OFFICE, THE BLACK AFFAIRS COUNCIL OFFICE AND
THE TATE CENTER INFORMATION DESK
...COME CHECK IT OUT!
Applications are due on Tuesday, May 8,1990 at
5:00 p.m. in 404 Memorial Hall
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By ERIC ALLEN
Contributing Writer
Maybe it’s the rocking chairB on
the front porch. Or the screen door
reminiscent of grandma’s house.
Dr maybe it’s the mcose heads on
the walls with beads draped across
their antlers. Somehow, this place
doesn’t look like a business.
It is though. In fact, if its present
growth is any indication, it may be
come one of the more successful
businesses in town. And it’s oper
ated entirely by students.
The place is Loco’s — that’s a
noun, not an adjective. Owners
Hughes Lowrance and James
Loftin, who is also manager,
opened their screen door at 724
Oconee St. in March of 1988 to sell
first-rate deli sandwiches.
What began as a combination
grocery store and deli with a staff
of five has mushroomed into a
$25,000-a-month business with 23
full or part-time employees. All
from an initial investment of
$8,000.
The key, Loftin said, has been
Loco’s delivery service. For 50
cents extra, lunch-time office
workers and late-night couch pota
toes all across Athens can have
their sandwich delivered to their
door.
The grocery side of the business
didn’t fare as well. Eight months
after opening, Loflin decided to
stick strictly with the deli.
Early on, he committed his
fledgling restaurant to selling “the
highest-quality deli sandwiches
anywhere ”
Loflin said he tries to maintain
this committment to the business
in all his employees. "If anybody
calls me 'boss/1 get upset,” he said.
“Everybody is into the business. I
think it's because of my age and
the fact that I’m a student. We’re
all on the same plane. And you can
bet they’re all making better
money than I am."
The students/dri vers earn min
imum wage plus the 50 cent charge
for every sandwich they deliver.
“When you add all that together,
they're making between $8 and $9
an hour ” Loftin said.
There are disadvantages to an
all-student staff, of course. “Some
times they come in hung over,” he
said. “But only once have I had
someone not show up for work, and
only a few times has anybody even
been late.”
Loflin is 23, a political science
mtyor, and “makes enough for a
very simple lifestyle,” he said. “So
far, we’ve been pouring everything
right back into the business.”
So how does a political science
major become a restaurateur?
“It was the building," Loflin
said. “I used to drive up and down
this street every day, and I had my
eye on this building for two years. I
fell in love with it. I told my girlf
riend that if this building ever
came up for sale, I was going to do
something with it.”
The building is a story in itself.
According to Loflin, it is about 150
years old and has been used for ev
erything from a general store, back
in the days when the railroad
tracks used to run right out front,
to a meat shop to a doctor’s office.
“I didn’t care about being in the
food business,” Loflin said. “It was
just the building. I knew this loca
tion was good for something, and
since food was the easiest thing to
put in it, that’s what I did.”
When asked how many business
people are motivated by love-af
fairs with buildings, he replied, “all
of them who are successful. They
would all tell you that location is
everything.”
Loco’s is just up the hill from
Lexington Highway. “Nearly 2,000
students drive up and down this
street every day," Loftin said.
‘They've got to come right by here,
and they’ve got to be hungry."
Loflin had never been in busi
ness for himself before. “I didn’t
have any idea what I was doing,”
he said.
He finally made his connections
for renting the old store at a
modest rate — $400 a month. Next
came the business license.
“I went down to City Hall and
said, ‘I want to go into business for
myself. What do I need to do?’ So
they sent me down to the Health
Department, I filled out some
forms there, then came back to
City Hall, paid them $50, and I was
in business.
“All I had to buy was an oven
and a refrigerator," Loftin said.
“I think it’s only a matter of
people trying our food before they
become regular customers," he
said. “We call them ‘Loco’s Jun
kies,’ and we’ve got them all over
town.”
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