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Buddy Kring and LN Dale were living comfortable lives raising their seven children in foodie centric Boulder, Colorado. Dale worked as a naturopath, and Kring was a stay-at-home dad. When presented with the opportunity to change their lives they tentatively stepped into the new adventure, creating Burnt Toast Restaurant. In this new memoir, Kring shares the struggles the couple endured and how their family and community worked to make something that was more than the small business they had envisioned. Kring discusses How he and his partner gave up the comfortable life they knew in exchange for the unknown, the challenges of turning a storefront in a ninety-year-old building into a restaurant, the way the couple integrated their own identity into the restaurant, the characters they encountered, the community they discovered, the balance between home life and work life, the joy of owning your own business, and all the surprises, both good and bad Kring and Dale fought convention to create the kind of restaurant they would want to visit, and discovered a community that longed for the same thing. Their restaurant became a fixture in Boulder and it inspired the Burnt Toast Caf on the hit TV show Heroes.

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Buddy Kring has led a life that has taken him all over the world. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and spent a year working with inmates at a federal maximum-security penitentiary. He traveled throughout the Middle East and Europe before spending five years in Paris. While there, Kring expanded his culinary repertoire, taking classes at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine, working at the acclaimed Steven Spurrier's Academie du Vin, and opening a catering business. Kring also worked on fishing boats in Alaska, earned an MBA at the Yale School of Management, sailed the Pacific Ocean, consulted in New York City, and managed a feeding program in Sudan. Kring, with his partner LN Dale, and their blended family of seven children spent a year traveling around the world before returning to Colorado and opening the Burnt Toast Restaurant.

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