Saturday I ran the very first The Pancake Parlour in Melbourne and established it as a household brand. It opened in 1969 in Market Lane. While we were building, and for years after we opened, I would regularly eat at a little Italian restaurant at the top of Bourke Street. It was good, simple Italian food of a consistent quality. To my knowledge, though it seems … [Read more...]
The Year – Past and Future
Wednesday I love Christmas. It is a time when my attention is off the business (closed for the day), and my children return home. My beautiful daughter who lives interstate walked through the door in a surprise visit on Christmas Day, which exposed my soppy old sentimentality. When the dust and merriment has settled, Christmas is also when I tend to ponder on the year – … [Read more...]