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changes to M&T, and all were delivering the community what they
said they wanted and what we felt would be bringing value. And so
the community has responded. There are countless people who went
on their first date, who their kids have grown up going here. They’re
the kids that worked with us. We’re very fortunate to become part of
the fabric of their lives, and we don’t take that for granted at all. We
didn’t before, but we certainly don’t now. You just don’t fake real
time connections and doing the thing.
TM: I mean, 15 years ago, when we opened Muss & Turner’s, my wife
Allison was pregnant with my son who, for the last year, is busting
suds in the dish pit. Ryan’s daughter just started here at MTH to work
in packing orders. So it’s crazy to think that our kids are working in
our businesses and it’s just pretty cool. I remember working for my
dad when I was about that age and it taught me a lot of good lessons
about being an entrepreneur.
CL: So your newest venture is MTH Pizza, right? What was the idea
behind this?
CH: My first jobs in this business were in pizza. I worked at the Pizza
Hut on Collier Road, which is now DAS Barbecue. And I worked at
Fellini’s.
TM: My first jobs in the business were in sandwich shops and delis.
CH: And so I’d always wanted to do pizza. This spot came open, it
was Little Azio was before and was already branded as a pizza place.
TM: And the oven is badass.
CH: This was just a really good concept, and a good confluence of
circumstances. Our lease was coming up over there. And so we
started to renegotiate and it’s the same landlord. They were like, take
a look at it. So Todd came in and looked at it and was like, ‘Hey man,
this oven’s legit.’ Todd loves to mess around with dough, and it just
snowballed. We’re super proud of what we’ve created. It’s just a cool
neighborhood pizzeria. Every great community needs a cool pizzeria.
That’s what we’re trying to do, just turn some music on and do some
kick-ass pizza. You can choose your own adventure, but you can also
get some chef-driven pizzas that we would want to make and eat. I
mean, this is where (wife) Julie and I eat.
RT: That’s the common thread. Chris was very involved with the
creation of Eleanor’s and what we did with renovating Muss &
Turners, then opening Local Three. One of our big missteps of many
in east Cobb was we did not necessarily build the restaurant that
we all loved. It was the restaurant that our former partner
envisioned to love. So we learned from that and, when we sat down
for this, and we each separately created a vision of what we
thought this place could be or what we would want it to be. And we
got together and there’s enough commonality and it really starts
with passion. Chris and Todd are both chefs and Todd’s the mad
scientist and Chris is the magician.
CL: So what are you?
TM: We cook the beans, he counts the beans.
RT: I’m their handler. I work with the management team and the
culture and all that stuff.
CL: There’s a lot of great local art in your restaurants, too.
RT: Oh yeah. For Local Three, Tracy Hartley’s a local folk artist and his
fingerprints are all over that place. He built the bar, our private dining
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