Foodies The Next Chapter

So I know I've been missed and you all have been eager to know how I've been making out LOL

So here is whats been going on in the aaj world.


After being laid off from my corporate cubical job from hell I started working for my landlord fixing up a property that had originally been a VERY greasy disgusting deli pizza place in a little sleepy town across the river from me. In the process of cleaning a million pieces of stainless and scrapping five gallon buckets of grease off the walls and experiencing many of what I began to refer to as "Mike Rowe Moments " I started to fall in love with the place and more importantly the "Vision" my landlord started to have with this place. The combination of hard physical labor and the friendship I formed with "Bob" my landlord as the project moved from a hole in the wall to a serious gastronomical epicurean destination.

Towards the end of the construction process Bob approached me with his own "Vision" for me. To run, manage and over see the vision, with eventually taking the vision to the next conclusion which is more places. So that will utilize my real estate, design, sales and communication skills.

OK so what is the "vision" ?

Well I think the name of the store and the brand says it all, Foodies. What is a Foodie ? A foodie is a person that experiences life through taste, all that we offer at this place is what you could dream of, the best of everything from the fair trade certified organic coffee brewed to exactly 204 deg filtered through 6 process before the water hits the freshly ground beens to simple pleasures like hot fresh Paulie home made mozzarella or a fresh hot donut made on site. Sunday Gravy with fresh meatballs and sausage to epicurean delight like sea weed salad flown in from the Pacific within 24 hrs. Thin crust corn meal crust pizza as well as sour dough and spelt crust pizza.

I'm overseeing a staff of 10 including chefs and pizza men, and working all day and loving it all. I feel as though this is almost a calling and I truly share the vision.