Dinner and dancing — that’s the ticket for keeping the passion alive and the family thriving for couples who co-own restaurants, four central Ohio pairs say.
The dinner part’s easy.
For Laurie and Peter Danis, dinner is a way to stay in touch with their three daughters. The owners of Figlio Wood Fired Pizza in Grandview Heights, Upper Arlington and Dayton and Vino Vino in Grandview Heights always have a family meal, even if it’s after the restaurant closes.
“It isn’t a question of marriage or business,” Peter Danis said. “We bring the business into the family and the family into the business. It works for us.”
It was family that brought the Danises into restaurants. Peter and Laurie were both lawyers 20 years ago when the first of their girls came along.
“On the day she was born, I realized that life was too short to practice law,” Peter Danis said. “I wanted to follow my passion.”
The couple talked it out that night, and two years later, the first Figlio — Italian for son — was born.
Melody and Ron Fewster of Waverly, who own seven McDonald’s restaurants in southern Ohio, agreed. Full story.
Photo: Jeff Hinckley | Dispatch.