5 things to know about Ocean Bay Seafood in Kinston
1. Ocean Bay Seafood opened after COVID-19 hit as a food-to-go restaurant.
Jack Zhang shut down his family-owned Jacksonville seafood restaurant in the midst of COVID-19 last year and started a lucrative carryout business.
His family’s carryout-business model showed success, and the idea to open an Ocean Bay Seafood Restaurant in Kinston, serving mainly as a food-to-go hub with Styrofoam plates and plastic forks and knives, began.
“It was a fancy restaurant. That’s what we started in Onslow County,” Zhang said. “When COVID came, we shut down the dining and did carryout only. We were not even open, and we had a lot of customers.”