Sticky Fingers (restaurant)

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Sticky Fingers

Type	Casual Dining Restaurant
Founded	Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina (1992)
Headquarters	Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Website	www.stickyfingersonline.com

Sticky Fingers is a restaurant chain located in the southeastern United States specializing in Memphis Style Barbecue. It is named after the Rolling Stones album of the same name. Sticky Fingers was started by three high school friends in 1992. The first store opened in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and the company has grown to include 21 stores in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The newest store is located in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

1 History
2 Restaurant
3 Menu
4 Famous guests
5 Citations
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

Sticky Fingers was founded by lifelong friends Jeff Goldstein, Todd Eischeid, and Chad Walldorf who met in seventh grade in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The three friends went their separate ways after high school, each attending a different college. After college Jeff moved to Memphis to work for his father at the famous Public Eye restaurant where he gained a love for ribs and barbecue. Jeff's parents then moved to Charleston, South Carolina where they complained there was no good barbecue. Jeff proceeded to contact Todd and Chad who were busy being ski bums in Colorado and ask them how they felt about opening a restaurant in Charleston. The three opened the first Sticky Fingers in the Charleston suburb of Mt. Pleasant. Originally Jeff ran the kitchen, Chad was on the floor, and Todd did the accounting and helped where he was needed. The three rotated jobs every six months.^[1]

[edit] Restaurant

The ambiance of the restaurant can be described as nostalgic. In order to accent the Memphis Style Barbecue, blues music is played and pictures of various famous blues artists and instruments associated with blues music such as guitars and basses. The boothes are made of dark stained wood benches. A framed copy of The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers hangs near the bar in every restaurant. On each table a caddy carrying each of the five Sticky Fingers barbecue sauces, along with the Sticky Fingers dry rub and hot sauce.

[edit] Menu

Sticky Fingers specializes in St. Louis style ribs that are hickory smoked in every store. Sticky Fingers also serves various pulled pork and rotisserie chicken dishes (both of which are also hickory smoked in store) along with salads and deserts. Sticky Fingers exclusive flavor comes from its five signature sauces:
Memphis Original(also known as "Wet")- A traditional tomato based barbecue sauce
Carolina Sweet- A sweeter version of the Memphis Original and the most popular sauce
Habanero Hot- A spicy version of the Memphis Original
Tennessee Whiskey- A barbecue sauce with a hint of whiskey flavor
Carolina Classic- The restaurant's only mustard based sauce
Memphis Style Dry- The restaurant's dry rub that can be ordered on any meat

[edit] Famous guests

The entrance to each Sticky Fingers has pictures of the various famous guests that have visited Sticky Fingers. Some of these include^[2]:
Bill Murray - actor
Patrick Ewing - NBA player
Jeff Van Gundy - NBA coach
Charles Oakley - NBA player
Elizabeth Dole - politician
Tom Petty - musician
Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
Bob Villa - TV personality
Wade Boggs - MLB player
John Grisham - author
Paul Azinger - PGA golfer
Steve Jones - PGA golfer
Stephen Colbert - TV Personality-the original portrait from the Colbert Report hangs in the downtown Charleston Sticky Fingers, most locations have a copy of the portrait in store