“She flew back to visit her family,” Markey said. Tim and Carol lived and worked at various bars and restaurants in Maui for three years.Īt some point during this time, though, Carol decided Tim should marry her. “That is one of the nice things about the restaurant business.”
“In three days we both had jobs and an apartment.,” Markey said. He sold his car for enough to pay for two plane tickets and a hotel for a week and have enough left over to to get back after a week if they had to. And she said, ‘That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. I said okay, but I’m going to be leaving for Hawaii soon. Hearing that, Carol decided that perhaps she had been too hasty.Īs Markey explains, “We ran into each other and she asked me if I would go out to dinner with her. At some point, they broke up, so Tim decided to go to Hawaii. Tim and Carol worked at different restaurants in Monterey for a year. He says that missing a chance to see his father again was one of his life’s low lights. But later, his mom told him that when he left for California, his dad cried, thinking he would never see his son again. Markey says this drive out to California was one of his life’s highlights. He jumped in his Subaru Brat and headed out to Monterey. So Carol sent Tim a letter letting him know where she was. “But after I had called a few times, finally the mother told Carol she goes, ‘Look you are going to have to talk to this guy because I don’t want to keep talking to him.’” “I had the number of her mother, but her mother said ‘I don’t know where she is.’” Markey explained. , food service was never anything I planned to do.” “It was something that kind of clicked with me,” Markey said. So, they decided to send Markey.Īnd then, when they brought him back to Sawmill in May after the end of the 1979 season, they let the old maitre d’ go and gave that job to Markey.Īt this point, he was deeply into the food and beverage industry. But Sawmill wouldn’t let him go because they needed him at Sawmill. Unbeknownst to Markey, his boss, the maître d’ at Sawmill, was angling for that job. In 1979, they sold that resort, and part of the sales agreement was that Sawmill Creek would provide a dining room supervisor and a front desk supervisor for the first winter down there, to help with the transition.
The owners of Sawmill Creek also owned Sugar Bird Beach and Tennis Club in the U.S. That lasted about two years, and then another “accident” took him to the Virgin Islands. He wishes now he had had someone to push him. He was worried that he would fail if he tried, so he just didn’t try. Today, he says, one of his big regrets is that he didn’t have more confidence in his own intellectual abilities. But he admits that he never really tried very hard in school. In fact, he found math easy and enjoyable. Mary’s of Redford, where he graduated in 1974. He went to George Ford School through ninth grade and then to St. Not surprisingly given the times and seven children, his mother was a stay-at-home mom. He also worked part-time as a butcher for a few years.
Markey’s father was a night dispatcher for Detroit Edison for 45 years. They moved back to Detroit shortly thereafter, where they lived most of their lives. His father proposed to her five days after arriving in Texas. Markey’s future mother was the sister of the bride. He met Tim’s mother in Texas, when he went to Houston for his brother’s wedding. Markey’s father had a bit of an “accidental” streak as well. The kind of attitudes and what’s normal and you just kind of get used to working with people like that. And it’s surprisingly consistent in all the different restaurants. “You kind of know where they are all coming from. “Everyone’s got their own quirks, of course, but cooks all have a certain way of doing what they do and hostesses have a certain way of doing what they do, and waitresses have a certain way and bartenders,” Markey added. In the restaurant business, the people, I always just describe it that they are more real. “You know, when I was an accountant you deal with a lot of bankers and (no offense), lawyers, and people like that. “For one thing, I like the people that work in the hospitality industry,” Markey said. It’s almost like an addiction.”Īsk him why he likes it, and he’ll tell you it starts with the people. And those that like it seem to, you know, almost crave it. But if you’ve got a passion for it, it’s a fun way to make a living. “Food service is not for everyone,” Markey recognizes.
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