posted by Joe Polk at 11:53 PM /
Owning a restaurant is like having another child, according to Jeff Iovino of the award-winning Iovino's Cafe in Mt. Lebanon.
There's the initial excitement and pride, and then comes the hard work. On the Friday night of the major blizzard in February, Iovino says he shoveled the sidewalk every half-hour until closing.
"I easily put in 80 hours a week and then some," says Iovino, 37, who opened the upscale cafe with his wife, Carol, in 2006. "You can't turn it off. But we knew what we were getting into. We had both been in the business a long time. There's a lot of pressure to be the best and keep the menu creative."
Read more: www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_696941.html
There's the initial excitement and pride, and then comes the hard work. On the Friday night of the major blizzard in February, Iovino says he shoveled the sidewalk every half-hour until closing.
"I easily put in 80 hours a week and then some," says Iovino, 37, who opened the upscale cafe with his wife, Carol, in 2006. "You can't turn it off. But we knew what we were getting into. We had both been in the business a long time. There's a lot of pressure to be the best and keep the menu creative."
Read more: www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_696941.html
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2 Comments:
My wife and I eat at Iovino's Cafe nearly weekly and love the place. According to the Trib article, the restaurant just got its liquor license. That's great for us because we usually can't finish a bottle of wine in an evening, but a glass or two is just right.
Woot! I think I know where I'm eating Tuesday night :-)
We took some friends there last month and the food and the service were both perfect.
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