About Us
We start with only the freshest, local ingredients and build it just the way you like.
The Ham Shoppe was reborn as a food truck in 2024 under the new ownership of Denton Poteet, a professional chef who grew up eating at the original Valle Crucis location and jumped at the chance to revitalize the brand for the Boone area. Denton and his family moved to the High Country in 2020 after 8 years in New Mexico, and were sad to discover the original location was no longer serving the sandwiches he had loved growing up. When the business came up for sale, it felt like a perfect opportunity to restore a local institution.
The new Ham Shoppe is a true family operation, and will remain a food truck for the time being. If the open sign is on, you can be sure Denton and quite possibly his wife will be onboard, taking orders and making sandwiches. The truck will be a fixture at local events, and will gladly accept requests for catering and group meals.