Category: Food for Thought

13Apr2018

JGL’s Roots – A Tribute to Our Founder

By Tracy Lawler
Food for Thought

Most people who meet me and learn what I do for a living ask “how did you get into this”? My answer is in a very circular (yet organic) way. It all started with my dad James Gates Lawler (yes – JGL… I know – not very creative). Jim worked for two of the “big […]

10Apr2018

Smile, though your heart is breaking…

By David McCallum
Food for Thought

I grew up in the restaurant industry. My father had a small inn, 20 rooms in total, along with a fine dining restaurant on a small island in the Chesapeake. It’s cliché, but true…the restaurant industry is in my blood. For the better part of three decades I have either been a waiter, busser, host, […]