The Patriotic Pig was started as a barbecue catering company, mostly for weddings, by Marc and Gina Smith in 2016. A year in, business was so good Marc quit his job in IT, and Gina quit her job a year later to manage the operation. Eventually, they opened their restaurant in North Richland Hills on July 4th weekend in 2019. They were going nowhere but up before the pandemic arrived in 2020. The restaurant closed its dining room, and all the brides and grooms canceled their weddings, asking for refunds of the catering deposits they’d made. It almost broke the Smiths. They sold their home in Grapevine and moved into an apartment near the restaurant. A PPP loan helped keep the business afloat, and so…
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