♪ Sumter's been my home since I was born.

It's just this is home for me.

♪ I'm Todd Touchberry.

I'm the general manager of Sumter Cut Rate.

We are South Carolina's second oldest continually operating restaurant.

We're in downtown Sumter, South Carolina at 32 South Main Street.

♪ Sumter Cut Rate is in it's original location.

It started in 1935.

It was just a straight counter until the middle 60s and then they put in the U-shaped counter because business was so good.

I think a couple of our unique features are we're still inside of a pharmacy.

There's virtually no change since 1935.

We're going on 76 years, a little over 76 years now.

You will see every race, color, creed, walk of life come through the door and sit side by side and carry on conversations like you'll never see in anywhere else in South Carolina.

♪ I think one thing that brings locals in here on a daily and weekly basis and I think what brings people that have moved away from town, back here as soon as they come back into town is, there's a sense of camaraderie.

We try to keep different things on display that make people feel like they're at home.

We try to cook what they grew up on.

Here in South Carolina, it's a little bit different culture than say different parts of the country.

♪ We serve old school, what we call number one and number two, breakfast specials with eggs, your choice of meat: bacon or sausage, grits, toast.

We have hand pattied hamburgers We have club sandwiches, and, of course, our chicken salad is what we're most famous for.

If South Carolina was one dish it would obviously be our chicken salad.

It is our most popular seller, and we go through anywhere from 40 to 120 pounds of chicken a day and we have literally shipped it all over the country.

It's made with love.

♪ I think one of our most asked questions is What's the Whirly Ding?

While the name proceeds my time being here, it's basically a bed of lettuce with either one or two scoops of chicken salad, some tomato wedges and a pickle.

One thing that I tried to bring to the table when I took this over, 12 - 13 years ago was the local history being on display as much as possible and I have yearbook collection that goes all the way back to 1920, which was the first time they had yearbooks in Sumter.

Everything that's on display here has a tie somewhere or another to Sumter.

I've always been a history buff.

I think that's one thing that brings people back to a time of days gone by, simpler times.

I think that's what people want sometimes.

Any little bit that I can personally hold on to and bring around and keep for the next generation and for other people to come back and enjoy, I think that's really important.

♪ I think Sumter is a good place to visit or even make home.

We're so close to everything.

We're literally right in the middle between the mountains and the ocean.

Sumter, obviously, has a lot of southern hospitality in it being in the middle of the south, being so close to the ocean, hour and a half, two hours from the ocean, hour and a half, two hours to the mountains, you can enjoy everything that you could possibly imagine here.

It's really an interesting place to live.