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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.”