Sean Feeney

I got extremely inspired by someone who did exactly what they said they were going to do.

I could tell in the beginning of that year, she didn't want to go back into being in the restaurants.

She was telling me she was going to maybe go to become a psychiatrist or be an interior designer.

Nothing had to do with being a chef anymore.

But in that year, I was tasting food that she was making on the Weight Watchers point system, but her own recipes.

And I'm like, well, she's the greatest chef of all time.

And this is the best food I've ever tasted from her.

She's got to be a chef.

And then we would go out to dinner with her and see these people treating her with this great amount of respect and love and admiration.

And I'm like, she's got to be a chef.

But I also believe she could be an owner.

Towards the end of 2013, I could sense that she was a little nervous about whatever.

And I blurted out one night with my wife in our apartment, we love you and we all support you.

And whatever you need, we've got you.

And I believed when I said that that night, it meant when you open your own restaurant, we'll be there every night.

We will fill it up.

That's all I could offer and support at that time.

And I was confident that I could do that because I was doing that for 15 years in finance.

People would come up to me and ask me, what restaurant should I go to for a date?

What should I go to in Midtown for a business dinner?