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Leon Brunson stands proudly before the former K.B.'s Kitchen where he will soon open "Leon."
He says the experience will be a fusion of many flavors prepared by a best friend who also happens to be a master chef.
The coronavirus pandemic has especially been brutal on the restaurant business. But a Tallahassee chef plans to stake his culinary claim in his former employer's stone cabin on the shores of Lake Ella.
Leon Brunson insists he didn't start out wanting to become a master chef.
"I was never around food until I worked at Waffle House. And when I started working at Waffle House, I realized it was kind of like a game; how quickly could you put things together and assemble them delicately and make the people happy? So I had a lot of appeal from Waffle House from it being an open kitchen so you could interact with the guests and you had regulars."