A restaurant owner in Plains shares her experience on serving former President Jimmy Carter throughout the years.

If it was late afternoon on a Friday in Plains and Bonita’s Restaurant was open ... give them a quality food experience in southwest Georgia, where President Carter not only ate, but he left ...

Bonita Hightower, owner of Bonita’s Restaurant in Plains, GA, was very busy feeding visitors from across the U.S. and the world when they came to Plains to honor former President Jimmy Carter ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Downtown Plains, Georgia, is a strip of quaint shops and restaurants. Among them is one place where President Jimmy Carter liked to stop in and talk shop in his hometown.

By Christina Morales Reporting from Plains, Ga. Plains has no major hotel, a single small gas station and only a couple of restaurants, neither of which is usually open for dinner. Still ...

Tiffany Patten of Columbus poses next to a portrait of former President Jimmy Carter at Bonita’s Restaurant in Plains, Georgia, on Jan. 9, 2025, the final day of Carter’s six-day state funeral.