Article: Starting with Ground Floor

It took a lot of convincing, but Tracey Slover finally was persuaded to get into the restaurant business as an owner-operator.

She and partner Teddy Mitchell now own Restaurant Acquisition Corp., which last week closed on the deal to buy the Ground Floor Cafe in Leadership Square in downtown. Slover is the managing partner of the organization.

The other Ground Floor Cafe, in the Nichols Hills Plaza, is still owned by the Cala Corp. of Oklahoma City.

"When we decided to go into the restaurant business, we wanted to start rather small and get our feet wet before going into multiple locations," Slover said. "We looked at several (restaurants) and found this one looked good. It has better ...

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