Guy Fieri is a chef, television personality, and owner of 92 restaurants. Few people, however, know his humble beginnings, from where he took his first steps in order to turn his dreams of success into reality.
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Do you know Guy Fieri? He is a chef born into a modest family in a small town in northern California, with a homemaker mother and a father employed in a leather goods factory. Guy started working in a Mexican restaurant when he was only 12 years old to work his way up the ranks. He now owns 92 restaurants, and in addition to his success as a chef, he is also well-known in the entertainment world: he hosts 4 different television programs, a food competition show, and has VIP friendships such as close ones with Sylvester Stallone and Al Pacino, two of the most famous actors in the world.
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"I started as a dishwasher and then graduated from the University of Nevada with a degree in Hotel Management," says the chef. His Eureka moment? Having always worked hard since he was a kid, he left for a cultural exchange program in France, and in the most elegant country on the planet he fell completely in love with cooking. Thus, upon returning to the United States, he began a brilliant career. In 1996 he finally opened his first restaurant, Johnny Garlic's, and by 2008 he was already running four locations plus a sushi and barbecue chain called Ted Wasabi's.
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"I started as a dishwasher and then graduated from the University of Nevada with a degree in Hotel Management," says the chef. His Eureka moment? Having always worked hard since he was a kid, he left for a cultural exchange program in France, and in the most elegant country on the planet he fell completely in love with cooking. Thus, upon returning to the United States, he began a brilliant career. In 1996 he finally opened his first restaurant, Johnny Garlic's, and by 2008 he was already running four locations plus a sushi and barbecue chain called Ted Wasabi's.
Tattoos, piercings and gold necklaces make him look like a bad boy, but his true story is actually quite the opposite. It's that of a good, keen person who has raised not only his own children but also his nephew when his sister died of cancer, and who still gets sad in the face of criticism. Like the time a food critic said his margarita tasted like radiator fluid.
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"I don't know the journalist Pete Wells, I don't know if he has a restaurant or is if he was a cook. What I do know is that I was in my New York restaurant with the New York Times to raise money for Hurricane Sandy and the next day I read the review. But I'm not going to beat myself up."
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Source: nypost.com
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