A Passion for Cooking
The Hogans joined the restaurant industry later in their lives after more than 20 years in construction. While Matt had briefly worked in a restaurant earlier in his life, this would be Rachelle’s first outing into that world.
“If you would have told me 30 years ago when we got married, like, you’d be running a restaurant in the same town you bought your first house, I would be, like, ‘No way.’ I had never even worked in a restaurant,” Rachelle Hogan says.
But it might be misleading to say Hogan had no experience with food. She grew up in a Menonite family and community where her grandpa built a butcher shop in the yard complete with a walk-in freezer. There were family hog butcherings and cows strung up in the shop.