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VCU business professor takes his learning to the real world by opening a Northern Neck gourmet store with his wife in Warsaw.
AFTER TEACHING the The Richmond County native has taken a year's sabbatical to open a brand-new business back home in Warsaw. Moving from the theoretical to the reality of the bottom line, Minor and his wife, Pam, are daily learning lessons not found in textbooks as they operate the Northern Neck Gourmet. It's a place where you can get a good Gorgonzola, a nice merlot and a nice corned beef sandwich, complimented by a bowl of Pam's soul-warming vegetable soup. Getting the fledgling business up and running required months of grunt and construction work in the former electrical supply store on the town's Main Street. From day one, it's been a learning experience for the business professor and his wife. "Teaching business courses, much of the time is spent dealing with issues purely theoretical," said Minor. "That changes the second you open your own business. The bottom line is a very real concern." Minor, who graduated from Rappahannock High School on the other side of town, didn't set out to be a businessman or even a business professor. He got a degree from the University of Virginia in 1976, then went into the Navy with the intention of attending flight school. Instead, he took another path and wound up as a ship's supply officer. After six years in the service, he left to attend grad school at the University of South Carolina, earning his Ph.D. in business management in 1987. He was hired as a teacher in that field by VCU, and worked until last spring instructing students in the vagaries of logistics, inventory and operations. He and his wife, Pam, met in 1992 and married three years later. It was their adoption of two boys from Russia two years ago that prompted the move to open Northern Neck Gourmet. "Having grown up here, in
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