We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Tony Fam a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Tony, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Crazy stuff happening is almost as certain as death and taxes – it’s technically “unexpected” but something unexpected happening is to be expected and so can you share a crazy story with our readers

The craziest story that i have done is moved over 14 states and 24 cities and worked over 35 restaurants in united state that i had work for learn and to improve my skill to be better. And also back then 2014 i used to work double job and i need to wake up around 7am and get ready for the bus by 8am because i need 2 hours to get there from where i lived and my work started 10am and finish at 4 pm and also need 2 hours to get home and get ready for another job that start at 8pm to 3am and sleep about 4hours a day and i still sleep 4 hours a day untill now.

That is some of the craziest story of my life that have done for my american dream.

The negative one,i don’t think i have something about negative to say because i always put myself in positive thinking and positive situation.

Tony, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My name is Tony Fam and i’m from indonesia. I moved to united state end of the year 2013 and left my entire family that i loved to make our life better.
And I’m the first generation that moved to united state.
And also this is the big moved from ASIA continent to AMERICA continent and moved alone with no any family member and no english.
I did not speak english until i step my foot in america and learn all of my english by netflix and song.

My family background is food maker.
My mother has bakery store and my sisters has small restaurant back then and i always helping them since i was 7 years old and i think that how i learn how to cook and have that passion since very young age.
I’m not from rich family so i have to work hard since i was little.

And for my business i want all of the customers or folks that live around midwest know that WE ARE DIFFERENTE.
We want to bring your sushi taste to the next level if you are sushi lover please come and try and give a chance at least one to serve you.

We are work in the japanese cuisine since 2014 and around the cities and state and I really want you to know that ours chef have excelent skill to make you better quality food.

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

I build my reputation with the quality of my food that i served to my customers like fresh fish,good food and healthy food.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

I having really hard time when i had my business for the first time,running in restaurant business its not easy. Because i dont have enough people to help so i need to wake up like 6am and went to the restaurant and do alot of work until 2am and get home around 2.2oam and clean myself up and go to the bed.
I always keep telling myself everyday,don’t give up tony the time will come.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://harujapaneserestaurant.com/
• Instagram: harusushiizakaya
• Facebook: Haru Sushi Izakaya
• Yelp: Haru Sushi Izakaya

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Japanese ramen Homemade