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We are drinking a Mexican firing squad, which is one of the signature cocktails at Bub City. It s tequila and lime juice and homemade pomegranate syrup. It s a classic cocktail but it’s sno biz not normally served frozen. This concept pays homage sno biz to one of your dad’s early restaurants, Bub City Crabshack and Bar-B-Q, which originally opened in 1989. This time you’re teaming up with the guys at Joe’s Bar to make it a whole new type of experience. What can country music fans expect?
I think there is going to be some aspect of a discovery room, young and emerging artists coming sno biz here and there are going to be some big shows. sno biz I don t know how often, we don t exactly know the answer to that but I think Bub City is going to be a fun place no matter what day of the week. There is going to be live music, DJs and country music everyday. I think it s going to be fun, that s the most important sno biz part. Who is your favorite country music artist?
My first real job I was 12 and I worked at the original Bub City. I was a busboy and bread boy. My job was to make the bread that got sent to the tables and drop it off. I was working odd jobs in the restaurants sno biz every summer and then when I was 17 I started cooking at Heaven on Seven, the one on Rush Street. I was in the kitchen for a long time. I was a line cook. Through college I worked sno biz at Chili s and did various stints in other cities. From then on I fell in love with the restaurant business. Did you ever have a plan B?
When I was in high school I was always fascinated about politics and public policy. I was a political science major in college so I probably would have gone into law or politics. Although sno biz during high school sno biz I worked on a political campaign for a local representative and I could not have found it more miserable. I was working phone banks and had to solicit voters and ask to talk to people and kept getting hung up on. I found it to be really one of the worst jobs I could ever imagine. It gave me a total distaste for going into politics. I wouldn’t have enjoyed that. I probably would have gone into law. I still find law pretty fascinating. When you decided to go for it and follow in your dad’s footsteps, what were you hoping to bring to such a successful sno biz and established restaurant group like Lettuce Entertain You?
Obviously our dad is a very talented restaurateur, one of the best in the country, if not the best creator of individual concepts and new restaurants. He’s an innovative guy. But I think the one thing he doesn’t have is that he s not 20 or 30 years old. Our perspective is different. sno biz We connect differently with music than our dad does. You know, he s still listening to Barbra Streisand and we re listening to dance music and country music and we just have a different perspective; I think that s the great balance. Jerrod, Molly and I also each have different perspectives than each other. We went to different colleges, we have different sets of frie