Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mom-and-pop
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a mom-and-pop restaurant
Wiktionary
mom-and-pop
a. Small or unsophisticated, as a business that is run by a couple.
Usage examples of "mom-and-pop".
I don't simply mean issuing those mom-and-pop citations the way you used to -- the way you did with your sister.
On his right was a little mom-and-pop store with a bike rack in front and a sign reading OVEN-FRESH ROLLS in the window.
This isn't a shiny, plasticized, standard unit allied with a nationwide chain, but a mom-and-pop operation in a slightly sagging clapboard building with weathered white paint and dust-frosted windows.
Her folks ran a Mom-and-Pop grocery store a few blocks away and they were convinced she'd been grabbed by one of these white-slave operations you read about in the yellow press.