Diner with deep ties to Spartanburg to close, ‘getting tougher for mom-and-pop restaurants’

Annmedra Brown’s first job was at Ricky’s Drive-In West on East Blackstock Road.

She worked for the restaurant’s founder, Ricky Clayton, and remembers it being “more than a job. It was just like family.”

On Monday, she stopped in for lunch and to speak to David Clayton, who took over the restaurant from his father and mother, Susan, in 2001…

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