
"You know there’s a cheesesteak cart in the Home Depot parking lot?”
I have received 15 emails posing this question in the last three months. A stranger seemed shocked when he asked me this at the Enmark pumps a couple weeks back.
This may be a new concept in the Lowcountry, but for Larry and Carol Palmerio, it has been a way of life for 36 years.
Larry conceived of the idea in 1976 in the Philly suburb of Telford, Pa. The son of an insulating contractor opened his first restaurant straight out of high school.
“I did small eateries, I did 200 seat places that was like the Olive Garden before there was Olive Garden,” he said. “But it always comes back to the basics for me.”

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