Many people want to no about me ok well here it is :) I am a grad of American Culinary I have a degree in hotel/restaurant management I am not an English major as many of you have pointed out lol . I was the youngest business owner in the county when I started my first restaurant- Mikes Family Restaurant. ( Winner of the 2003 best bbq in Indiana Award from Indiana Restaurant magazine) - At 37 years old I suffered a mass heart attack and was laid up for almost 3 years causing me to loose Everything our home cars, business etc all gone !! . It took forever to get back to where I could do anything due to the heart damage I suffered during the heart attack as I had 38% damage to the muscle but much better now thanks . I then opened the Country Kitchen Restaurant and soon had people from all around coming to see what I was offering soon after we were named one of the best burgers and pancakes in the whole Wabash valley Being on tv and in the paper etc every week was a lot to handle as I only had a staff of 3 to run the whole 50 seat restaurant with me being the sole and only cook !! so we soon had to hire more help and poof the Country Kitchen was now famous. Then disaster struck my family and myself again as the farm we had been buying on contract for 4 years was taken from us due to the owner being sued and having to File Bankruptcy forcing us to move from our home. Well we looked and looked for a home big enough in that area as we have 5 kids but could find nothing so we found our new home in dugger !! but had to close the now famous restaurant as the drive was just to much. This home had been empty for 2 years and needs a lot of work we moved here just over 5 mo ago when it was getting cold so have not had much time to work on the house yet but this summer we will !! So yes the house does not look great now but it is clean inside and we have remodeled the whole kitchen etc !! in time it will look great again !! The produce business was an idea I had from years ago when I had a smaller produce business and thought ya no this is just what we need in this area- so that is how this produce group got started it was not to make money but to fill a need in this area !! And other then the occasional person telling lies and trying to run our new business into the ground it is going well !! I hope to open another restaurant someday in this area and make it as Famous as my Country Kitchen was AND I HAVE NEVER SCORED LESS THEN A 95% ON ANY HEALTH INSPECTION IN ALL OF MY 20 YEARS AS A CHEF thanks all :)
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:45:08 +0000
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