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Run by a Coptic couple, this is yet another Coptic-owned soul food restaurant on Murfreesboro Pike, the African Corridor.

Run by a Coptic woman primarily online, Crepechico serves savory and sweet crepes by request.

Another gyro shop, but in Hermitage, TN. Owned and operated by Khalid Soliman.

A pizza shop near Mill Ridge Park in Antioch, near the i-24 junction, this pizza shop shares a strip mall with Ibiza (a radio station),, a health shop, and Dollar General in front of and across the street from new developments in the Cane Ridge area.…

Ambrosia Catering is owned by Sherif Tadros, one of the first wave immigrants to Nashville in the 2000s. They often cater to non-Coptic events.

Another Greek restaurant owned by a Copt, this restaurant moved locations during the pandemic and opened in a large strip mall in Mt. Juliet. They also have a location in LaVergne (Rutherford County) , which was the first restaurant. Their spread…

Run by a Coptic husband and wife duo, this restaurant in LaVergne serves "American" classics in a rural area of Rutherford County.

A pizza store owned by a Coptic family in rural Smyrna in a strip mall with a Kroger, the store is well-connected to newcomers who are starting to skip over Davidson County to live in Rutherford and begin a life there. Most of those migrants have…

A franchise owned by a Coptic family, Sweet Mooyah's serves ice cream and desserts next to a Thai restaurant and a holistic-body store near to Rocky Road, a road that leads to Smyrna, another hub for middle class Copts despite its rurality.

A California-themed restaurant right off Nolensville Road, in Williamson County, West Coast's the cooking staff speaks Spanish and the owner, who runs the cash register, speaks Arabic. When we visited, the owner was in Egypt that summer and gave…