Fried chicken, turkey and dressing, macaroni and cheese, pork chops, and fried okra are the staples. Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room has been running its communal table experience since Sema Wilkes took over a boardinghouse in 1943. Fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, biscuits, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato souffle, and okra gumbo rotate through daily. H&H Soul Food Restaurant, MaconInez Hill and Louise Hudson opened H&H Soul Food Restaurant in 1959 in racially segregated Macon. Fried chicken, biscuits, country ham, green beans, peach cobbler, and macaroni and cheese are the beloved regulars.