City Bites

... The first City Bites opened on October 16th, 1986, in a small 800-square-foot location off NW 23rd Street in Bethany, Oklahoma. The business idea, dreamed up by three brothers, who were landscapers by trade and looking to make extra money on rainy days, was simple: Build a restaurant between the local high school and the next closest lunch spot in town and serve the highest quality food possible. The only problem was none of them could cook…so they made sandwiches!

The brothers, Brad, Gary, and Eric Blevins, set out on the impossible mission of acquiring funds to turn their dream into a reality, but with only one car and one wallet shared between the three of them, it proved to be no easy task. With a little help from Grandma, a maxed-out credit card, and an advance on a “to be completed” landscaping job, the idea of a Sandwich Place With An Attitude came to life. The next step, design and build the concept, proved as difficult as the first. With little money and no formal training, the brothers began to design and remodel the first City Bites themselves.