Henry

Henry

Part of the job of running a restaurant is ordering the food and supplies.  The two biggest suppliers when I first started at the Sea Gull were Monarch and Sexton.  Today both these companies are part of the giant food distributor US Foods, but they started as...
The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part I

The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part I

The Sea Gull burned to the ground forty years ago this year.  It’s easy for me to remember the date because my friend and key employee, Lorna, was born on December 12.  We took a few minutes to comment on the irony of that coincidence, but we didn’t dwell on it for...
Steps to Security

Steps to Security

  I recently read The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans by Neal Gabler.  As someone who has worked for thirty years as a financial adviser, reading the article was both sobering and painful.  It was sobering because it gets to the root of the angst in...