(upbeat music) - My name is Richard Cooper.

We're at 3110 Two Notch Rd.

Columbia, SC at Ray's Diner.

Ray's got started about nine, ten years ago.

It was two guys with a vision.

We happened to see an empty building and it used to be a restaurant, and it was in a great location so I guess we figured that we can make it.

If they made it work for twenty years, we could come and make it work for a little bit longer.

What Ray's Diner means to the community is a nice, warm atmosphere where you can come in and have a meal, and get to know people and see all your old friends, and work with the community, and bring a good place to eat with a warm atmosphere.

What make Ray's unique to breakfast is all the old timey breakfast that we have, like the liver pudding, onion sauces, and stewed salmon and all the good stuff like that that people just enjoy eating every day.

My grits, they're stone mountain and we make them a special way and it's hard to find them like that in Columbia.

That's our unique sellers.

If South Carolina was a dish?

Hey, that's a good question.

I'd guess it'd have to be the fish and grits.

The eggs, liver pudding on the side, some bacon on the side.

I think that would be the main course, main dish.

Ray's is a down home country spot where most our customers we know by name, and they come here for the good and warm atmosphere and a good breakfast at a very reasonable price.