‘We wanted to find something special’

The iconic Kill Devil Grill has new owners

(credit: Mark Jurkowitz)

The new owners of the iconic Kill Devil Grill say they are not going to alter the restaurant’s impressive formula for success.

“We wanted to find something special,” said Brett Babick, part of the new ownership team that includes principal owners Dee and Sara Northcutt. “In all my years [in the restaurant business], I’ve never seen it come together the way it comes together here.”

Noting that people sometimes wonder if new owners will change a business, he offered this response: “Why would we change anything? We didn’t buy it to change, we bought it because it is awesome.”

On July 10, original owners Bill and Liz Tucker sold the two-decades-old Kill Devil Hills restaurant to the

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