The original owners of Bite Groceteria in Inglewood bit off more than they could chew when they moved to the other side of 9th Avenue. The couple had been invited to become an anchor tenant at the Atlantic Avenue Art Block by the owner of the building, Jim Hill. Bite Groceteria opened in the new location on the ground floor of the newly-built building in February 2013.
The space was six times the size of the old Bite and the owners were simply overwhelmed. Suddenly, Jim was both a grocer and a restaurant owner. “Unfortunately it was a little bit too big for them. I eventually had to step in, reluctantly,” Jim says. “I didn’t really plan to be running a grocery store."
