Thanks to Corey Mintz we had our busiest day ever today. The Star’s outgoing restaurant critic reviewed us in today’s paper in what to my mind is an accurate and honest assessment of our first month in business. The result was a mob scene from start to finish today.
While similar in number to the mob scene Corey created on our first day this one was handled with aplomb by my team. In fact we were short staffed this morning but everyone pitched in and made this a stellar day.
Sandy Gordon, the phenomenal host with the most and now our music programmer extraordinaire mentioned at the end of his shift that our performance today was “a realization of my dream”. And he’s right. I created a system that I hoped would work and today it did.
I couldn’t possibly be more proud of my folks or myself for that matter. In fact, yesterday I had a special guest who reminded me how far I’ve come. I hadn’t seen law professor Allan Young for a few years when he rocked in with his family late in the afternoon. While it may seem like classic Caplansky hyperbole, Allan Young saved my life 8 years ago. I turned to him for help during the most difficult time of my life. While I won’t go into detail here and now I can say that his help had nothing to do with his criminal defense work and everything to do with my needing to find someone to believe in me when no one would. It was nice to have him see how far I’ve come and how right he was to have faith in me.
Justin, if you ever read this, please know you have a very special father.
