George Clarke is a son, a brother, a father, and the General Manager for Charlie Hooper’s Bar & Grille.

I once had the pleasure of cheffing for George at another neighborhood location, and that short-lived stint forged a friendship that has managed to last a decade (and counting).

George -- like many of his service-industry counterparts -- puts in long hours, and so the fact that he went out of his way to not ignore all of my annoying text messages and eventually committed to a date and time (and showed up!) did not go unnoticed in the least.

We talked a little bit about seeing concerts across many years and listening to music in our youth, and we may’ve also touched on the occasional difficulties of shaving layers of the party life off of the quasi-expected professionalism of a restaurateur. As my guest for Episode #23, Geo ...