Kate is a former marketing guru and serial restaurant industry gal. She got a Big Girl Job after college, but constantly missed the service life. Her family of restaurateurs and passionate chefs only amplified her longing to return to the industry.  Her grandmother, uncle and great-grandfather were the proprietors of Carl Meyer's Hof, a Buffalo instituion for nearly fifty years, then years later, her aunt opened two successful restaurants in northern California. She was enamored by the stories from the Hof, often told at the stove as she learned to brown roux and clarify stock. Cooking, dining, hosting, 

service, and the pleasure of food were bred into her, and after some years working in her "career", she finally stopped denying it and surrendered to Betty.