It adds a little bit of snap.

It's totally different from what people are going to see anywhere else. It's artwork. It's fabulous.

People are getting quicker exposure. We have to be a little bit ahead.

Until I started the Hardwood Cafe, I didn't realize just how many people come through our area. We're so centrally located. We get people going to Ironwood, Escanaba to Houghton and to Marquette. Many of them are out of Wisconsin or Illinois going to Canyon Falls or the Ottawa National Forest. Plus, this is a very busy traffic area for Canadians.

My dad and his brother had just started a log home franchise, Whisper Creek it's called, and he was building a demo on my highway property when the Do Drop closed. And we thought, why not put a restaurant inside of it.

John Ritter had told everybody to introduce me as an airplane pilot to fool Don. He turned purple when he found out I worked for the studio.