Mike Clay
savor — guide to food & dining on the azalea coast
he Historic Burgaw Train Depot does not
look like the home base of one of the area’s
most innovative and popular new small businesses.
With its well-kept exterior and newly
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painted pair of boxcars, it looks more like a museum.
The site is a clever disguise for the sparkling, stainless
steel commercial kitchen, equipped with professional
grade walk-in freezers housed in one of the boxcars.
This is where Mike Clay’s Custom Fit Meals are
prepared.
It is hard to picture Clay — now a tall, muscular guy
with an upbeat personality — at 300 pounds and miserable.
“It was my 25th birthday, I … couldn’t get out of bed
and my soul hurt from the way that I felt about myself
and the way others thought about me,” Clay says. Soon
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