Michael Chernow

And so I went back to culinary school while I was doing the culinary arts program.

Cornell had partnered with the French Culinary Institute to create a restaurant management program, which is like Dave Cornell's got the best hospitality program in the country, arguably the world.

And so they came together with FCI.

They offered one scholarship.

The scholarship was to write a fully baked business plan and submit it.

And, you know, if you...

If they thought it was good enough, you know, whoever they were going to give a full scholarship to one person.

And I wrote the plan.

I don't know how many other people wrote the plan, but I got the scholarship.

And so I spent a little two and a half years there.

When I graduated, I started writing a plan and like a real business plan.

And I spent a year working on the plan and the, you know, I convinced my old friend Daniel to come back to New York and do this with me.

And at this point, I'm like 27.

And I've been working at Frank for, since I was 20.

So all the regulars at this restaurant have kind of seen me go from this like young, fun party animal kid to getting sober, to meeting a woman.

I got married in 2007.

Basically that year that I graduated, I got married.

And then going back to school.

Anyway, these guys saw the arc.

That's cool to see.