Hinesville restaurant Izola’s Country Cooking goes viral on TikTok

“Cause when it first started — was it December when that truck driver came in? — she said she lived in New York but she had gone to Florida, I guess she was doing loads and she said I’ve been following you on TikTok. And she said ‘I got close enough,’ she said ‘I was on I-95 going back north’ and she said ‘I veered off the 30 minutes to come eat’ so we did a TikTok with her so I think that was kind of the start of it,” said Lori Poole.

“The biggest thing for us as what we’re going through here on the line, we’re giving you a taste without actually tasting everything that we have on the menu so you can see visually before you walk through those doors. ‘Oh wow! This is what they’re serving today.’ Ninety percent of the people, they eat with their eyes so they can see the product beforehand, it draws attention,” said Whiters.