Modified: 12/20/2020 11:30:00 AM
Randy White is the first to acknowledge that some people might be wondering if he has lost his mind.
“Let’s buy a restaurant during a pandemic?” White puts the question to himself. “Most people would say this guy has lost his rocker. But I see an opportunity.”
That “opportunity” was to reopen Farmer’s Table Cafe, adjacent to Rum Brook Market at Exit 13 off Interstate 89 in Grantham, a couple weeks ago. The restaurant had been closed since March when previous owner Sara Hastings shut it down during the first wave of the pandemic.
White, a former Dartmouth-Hitchcock IT specialist whose rock band often played gigs at the cafe, purchased it from Hastings — “name, decor, the whole works” — and brought back many of the restaurant’s kitchen crew and front house staff, along with “95% of the menu.”