Published Sun Jul 31 2022 08:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by Joe Tasca For 15 years, Richmond resident Jim Burns dreamed of opening his own restaurant. As a longtime delivery driver for a local food distributor, Jim spent many days on the road, scoping out possible locations and thinking about what he'd put on his menu. Then one day, in March of 2021, Jim noticed a small building was available on Route 138 in Voluntown, Connecticut, on the Exeter/Hopkinton border. He called the landlord, signed a three-year lease, and began buying up cooking equipment and other supplies with a few credit cards and 30-thousand dollars he had in savings.

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