I started my career in the restaurant business when I was 15 years old in my home town of Montgomery, Alabama. Through high school and college I worked as a bus boy, server and bartender. In the early years my mom told me that the attraction to the restaurant industry was a natural, as her mom had made her living as a waitress working in restaurants in Mobile, Alabama.

Since then, I’ve spent my entire career in the industry and was lucky enough to work for some very successful operators, gaining experience and growing my love for this business. In the mid 1980’s I relocated to Atlanta and began working in the local restaurant scene and spent 16 years working for two of Atlanta’s most successful restaurant companies. In that environment, I built my own reputation by being focused on detail, consistency and genuine hospitality; I flourished while working in a large corporate restaurant atmosphere. That experience was the foundation and inspiration that I needed to go out on my own.

I am very fortunate to have relationships with people who helped me carve my path to becoming a restauranteur. There are way to many to thank but two that are most important. First Id like to thank Tonya, a person who always inspired me to follow my dream to venture out on my own as a restauranteur. Additionally my business partner, Steve Rayman. Not long after I met this gentleman, he made me an extremely generous offer, “Michel, you are the best I’ve ever seen at what you do.” He finished his statement with “and let me know when you are ready to open your own restaurant… I am forever grateful to the two of them for helping my dream become a reality, as I would not be where I am today without them.

I started my career in the restaurant business when I was 15 years old in my home town of Montgomery, Alabama. Through high school and college I worked as a bus boy, server and bartender. In the early years my mom told me that the attraction to the restaurant industry was a natural, as her mom had made her living as a waitress working in restaurants in Mobile, Alabama.

Since then, I’ve spent my entire career in the industry and was lucky enough to work for some very successful operators, gaining experience and growing my love for this business. In the mid 1980’s I relocated to Atlanta and began working in the local restaurant scene and spent 16 years working for two of Atlanta’s most successful restaurant companies. In that environment, I built my own reputation by being focused on detail, consistency and genuine hospitality; I flourished while working in a large corporate restaurant atmosphere. That experience was the foundation and inspiration that I needed to go out on my own.

I am very fortunate to have relationships with people who helped me carve my path to becoming a restauranteur. There are way to many to thank but two that are most important. First Id like to thank Tonya, a person who always inspired me to follow my dream to venture out on my own as a restauranteur. Additionally my business partner, Steve Rayman. Not long after I met this gentleman, he made me an extremely generous offer, “Michel, you are the best I’ve ever seen at what you do.” He finished his statement with “and let me know when you are ready to open your own restaurant… I am forever grateful to the two of them for helping my dream become a reality, as I would not be where I am today without them.