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My Story
My name is Daniel and standing next to me is my wife of 27 years Tina. We are
the owners of Pass The Salt .and in 2009 we purchased this home with
intentions of opening a cafe in our "golden" years but as life will have it things
changed. I have been working for myself all my life and prior to owning the cafe
I owned/operated a container company in Va for 20 years. An opportunity
arose to sell my company and during that time I started construction on the
cafe and after 10 months it was completed.
While working in the cafe I am always asked "How did you come up with this
fantastic menu" and "Are you a Chef". Well first of all I am not a chef nor have I
ever worked in a commercial kitchen before, I have always had a passion for
food and I really enjoy cooking. As for the menu, well honestly we just got tired
of going out locally and eating the same old fried fish or BBQ. So when we
crafted the menu we put sandwiches and dinners that we enjoyed eating, and
hired a baker that has the same passion when whipping up her incredible
cakes and cheese cakes.
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