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Hello fellow seasoned professionals!
This is my first post after years of perusement on this GREAT SITE. I’ve always enjoyed your comments, insights, knowledge, and philosophies.
I’m here now to ask you all for some guidance, so first allow me an introduction.
My Name is Uncle Mikey as most call me. I’m a trained and proven professional in the food business with a lifetime span of over forty years in the industry (save for a brief stint in college and working on the field in the Civil Engineering profession for a total of six years).
It’s the usual climb up the ladder story. I started washing dishes on the weekends during high school, and worked my way up to cook Chef, manager, and eventually by 1992, founded my first company as a Corporate caterer. What a great gig too.....I went on to building up a business with close to $1 Mil. In annual revenue, had 2great kids, my wife stayed home, bought a house, cars, etc. Times were great in those 25 years. Then, my dear wife was stricken with cancer.
I sold my business for way less money that I felt worth, as would anyone else feel in my grief stricken situation and stayed home to nurse my wife back to health. Medical science, and my vicinity to one of the best hospitals for this type of thing in the world, cured her. Now she’s in better shape than I am.
Over time, I’ve had 2 knee replacements and surgery to correct and replace two discs in my neck. I feel great now, and I finally got the bug back.
Since I was a kid, I’ve always loved the city of Chicago and most of all, the Italian Beef Sandwiches. It’s also a lifelong dream of mine to open up a “dump” where people will flock to no matter where they come from for this juicy, meaty, flavourful, melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness. I live in Toronto where this type of food is mostly dominated by the Italian veal sandwich and a good beef one is unheard of. Some attempted to bring Chicago’s sandwiches here but failed. Could be for a countless number of reasons as you know.
I want to open a small divey shop for as less capital as possible, make and market the best damn kickass Chicago beef sandwich the true north has ever had!
I would so much appreciate all your comments, ideas, recipes etc. etc.
This is my first post after years of perusement on this GREAT SITE. I’ve always enjoyed your comments, insights, knowledge, and philosophies.
I’m here now to ask you all for some guidance, so first allow me an introduction.
My Name is Uncle Mikey as most call me. I’m a trained and proven professional in the food business with a lifetime span of over forty years in the industry (save for a brief stint in college and working on the field in the Civil Engineering profession for a total of six years).
It’s the usual climb up the ladder story. I started washing dishes on the weekends during high school, and worked my way up to cook Chef, manager, and eventually by 1992, founded my first company as a Corporate caterer. What a great gig too.....I went on to building up a business with close to $1 Mil. In annual revenue, had 2great kids, my wife stayed home, bought a house, cars, etc. Times were great in those 25 years. Then, my dear wife was stricken with cancer.
I sold my business for way less money that I felt worth, as would anyone else feel in my grief stricken situation and stayed home to nurse my wife back to health. Medical science, and my vicinity to one of the best hospitals for this type of thing in the world, cured her. Now she’s in better shape than I am.
Over time, I’ve had 2 knee replacements and surgery to correct and replace two discs in my neck. I feel great now, and I finally got the bug back.
Since I was a kid, I’ve always loved the city of Chicago and most of all, the Italian Beef Sandwiches. It’s also a lifelong dream of mine to open up a “dump” where people will flock to no matter where they come from for this juicy, meaty, flavourful, melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness. I live in Toronto where this type of food is mostly dominated by the Italian veal sandwich and a good beef one is unheard of. Some attempted to bring Chicago’s sandwiches here but failed. Could be for a countless number of reasons as you know.
I want to open a small divey shop for as less capital as possible, make and market the best damn kickass Chicago beef sandwich the true north has ever had!
I would so much appreciate all your comments, ideas, recipes etc. etc.
