Bay City Restaurant & Seafood Company is a family owned and operated business founded in 1963 by William “Ted” Smith. The first seafood restaurant in Hanover, Pennsylvania, it was a business that grew out of a Volkswagen bug. Then living in Maryland, Ted Smith started the restaurant by hauling the fresh seafood and produce over the Mason-Dixon line from Baltimore. He drove back and forth daily in a VW Beetle with the seats removed to accommodate 10 or 12 bushels of crabs. The first Bay City Restaurant was in a strip shopping center on Carlisle Street and concentrated more on carry out than dining. As time passed, Bay City moved to a plaza – the predecessor to today’s North Hanover Mall. The plaza was updated into a mall about 1970, where the restaurant was located for 20 years. Mr. Smith’s business belief was that if you gave people “good food for a good price they would come back”. Come back they did, this is where the business really flourished and Ted was there 7 days a week to make sure it ran properly. He was a hands on owner – knowing the inventory down to the paper cup. All the recipes had been formulated by Smith and have not changed over the years.