Hospitality is in my blood for a bunch of reasons. I grew up going to work with my dad because, well, anyone who has ever had a parent that's worked restaurant hours knows that if you want to spend meaningful time with them, you have to go to work with them. Then watching him and my mother after some adversity early on in my life, I got to experience firsthand, the feeling of giving and receiving hospitality and kind of got addicted to it because of that experience. When I was a teenager living on Long Island, me and my band used to perform there.