Berlin's Restaurant Supply, opened on Rivers Avenue in 1986 by Ed Berlin, is closed after the family sold most of its assets in February 2024 to Kamran & Co., a Santa Barbara food-service firm backed by private equity. A handwritten note reading Closed forever sits in the window, the website is under construction, and the vacated 2.4-acre North Charleston property is listed at $9 million or for lease.
Why this matters here
Berlin's outfitted kitchens for Lowcountry restaurants, hotels, schools and hospitals for nearly four decades, and its quiet disappearance leaves local operators sourcing equipment from farther away. It is also a plain lesson in what can happen to a local institution after an out-of-state sale.
First reported by postandcourier.com.
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