WellStar Chamber Luncheon Series: Focus on Small Business Resilience and Opportunity – Ryan Pernice, RO Hospitality, Amanda Wilbanks of Southern Baked Pie Company, and Taylor Neary, Restaurant Holmes

Co-owner and Executive Chef of Restaurant Holmes, Taylor Neary grew up in the Roswell-Alpharetta area and prior to opening his own restaurant, worked at several well known restaurants in metro Atlanta. Restaurant Holmes lives in The Historic Jones House (built in 1915) in downtown Alpharetta’s City Center development.  Holmes opened in July of 2018 and continues to specialize in plates to share, offering local hyper seasonal vegetables and other unique chef creations – all cooked on a wood fired grill.

Ryan Pernice and his brother Daniel, a co-owner in the restaurants, have lived in Roswell for 25+ years, both graduating from Roswell High School many years ago. RO Hospitality currently owns three restaurants: Table & Main and Osteria Mattone in Roswell and Coalition Food and Beverage in Alpharetta.

Ryan graduated from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration with distinction in 2007. Afterwards, he lived in New York City working for acclaimed restaurateur Danny Meyer at Maialino, an Italian trattoria, before moving home in 2011 to open Table & Main.

Ryan’s restaurants are currently back to full operation and trying everything under the sun to remain top-of-mind for potential guests amidst all this craziness. Early on in the pandemic, they transformed Table & Main into a soup kitchen donating meals at no charge to the newly food insecure. They are proud to have fed 9,750 people during this difficult time.