Co-owners Jalon and Carolina Buckstead each have prior experience in restaurants. (Tom Blodgett/Community Impact Newspaper)
Co-owners Jalon and Carolina Buckstead each have prior experience in restaurants. (Tom Blodgett/Community Impact Newspaper)
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Taus eschewed his original path toward engineering and ended up working at a drugstore company opening stores in California and then Arizona in the late 1980s.
His business partner at the time used to give cooking classes on Sundays, and Taus hung around “like the towel boy” to collect some free food at the end of classes.
“All of a sudden I realized that my taste buds, I taste food very much different than a lot of other people,” he said. “Then what’s the next step? I realized that I could do this for the rest of my life. That was exciting.”