About The Copper Kettle

The Copper Kettle opened its doors on Main Street in the spring of 1987. Harold and Ruth Tanner had saved for years to buy the old lunch counter on the corner, and they reopened it with a handful of recipes, a secondhand griddle, and one big copper kettle hung in the front window that gave the place its name.

Word got around fast. Folks came in for the buttermilk pancakes and stayed for the company. Before long the Kettle was where Eastgate met — farmers before sunrise, families after church, the whole bowling league on Friday nights. Ruth's pies sold out most afternoons, and Harold knew just about everyone's order before they sat down.

Still in the Family

Today the Kettle is run by the Tanners' daughter, Carol, and her husband Mike, with a couple of the grandkids waiting tables in the summer. Not much has changed, and that's just how our regulars like it. We still bake the pies fresh every morning, still keep the coffee bottomless, and still greet you by name once you've been in a time or two.

What We Believe In

Good food, fair prices, and treating folks the way you'd want to be treated. We're not fancy and we don't try to be. We're the kind of place where you can read the paper over a second cup, where the waitress remembers your kids, and where a stranger only stays a stranger for one visit.

Thanks for being part of the Kettle family. We'll save you a booth.

— Carol & Mike Tanner