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What's better than owning 12 chain restaurants in Colorado?
Selling them back to corporate headquarters after 10 years.
Welcome to the life of 56-year-old Bob Steinberger, who sold his dozen Ruby Tuesday dining establishments — including Dillon's — about a year ago.
Now a food and beverage consultant, and always looking for another adventure in capitalism, Bob lives in Parker, but has been back up to Summit County several times recently to visit his older brother Jim in Frisco, who's been taking a winter break from the third generation family construction business in Logansport, Ind.
Bob got his start in building after graduating from the University of Indiana in Bloomington, and then joined Ruby Tuesday as an assistant manager in Memphis, Tenn. He continued with the growing chain, working in Michigan and South Florida, before buying the franchise rights in Colorado a little over a decade ago.
He owned the Ruby Tuesday in the Dillon Ridge Shopping Center, along with others, stretching from Fort Collins to Pueblo, and another in a Cripple Creek casino.
“I spent a lot of time in Dillon, which was my favorite location and also one of the most challenging,” says Bob.
The current managers under Ruby Tuesday Inc., are Candace Sullivan, Joy Borry, Maria Dickert and Mark Brehm.
“All are wonderful people and they have lived for considerable time in Summit County,” Bob says.
The first Ruby Tuesday was founded in 1972 by five University of Tennessee students, and is now headquartered in Maryville, Bob explains of the chain's growth over his 35 years there.
With a tagline of “Simple, fresh, American dining,” adds Bob, “we made a sincere effort to keep things healthy and fresh. We avoided MSG, trans fats and offered healthy dining alternatives.”
“I sold them all last March,” says Bob. “Ruby Tuesday Inc., the parent company, bought all the franchise restaurants across the country at the same time — about 130 ‘units' — and nine other franchises.”
Would Bob like to return to the fast action restaurant biz?
“Absolutely, especially one that would enable me to live in Summit County. My new company is Promacon — Hospitality Consultants.”
In his personal life, Bob and Elise Herold, who's “the best girlfriend ever,” met while skiing at Lake Tahoe. Bob's son Chase, 9, is a “Double Black fearless snowboarder.”
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Meanwhile, here are some other social gleanings:
While watching the PGA TV Michelson-Woods action over the weekend from Pebble Beach, we enjoyed some on-camera interaction between Summit High-CU grad Erik Leidal, a pro sports cameraman, and big-time star — and pretty good golfer — Bill Murray of Caddyshack fame.
“Bill Murray (attired in a goofy camouflage suit) took that camera from me and shot me,” Erik writes. “He wanted to show that the wind was blowing because my hair was blowing. He said that he was ‘in the union' and to give him the camera. He turned it on me and I smiled and showed my hair.”
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Spotted out and about recently were CME-er Pam Moser; Frisco Bay Marina Manager Phil Hofer and wife Michele; Summit County Chamber of Commerce President Mark Nunn of Edward Jones; visiting (again) Ohio financial adviser Jerry Rebel and wife Sharon; Kurt Morscher, back in town with black lab Sidney, buying a Mark Fox book which includes a photo of them; SIBA Exec Director Corry Mihm; a kinda retired Dobie Dobrovolony; telemarker Kasey Geoghegan, the Summit Foundation's director of development; and a regular hiker Laura Wilner and her dog Raj.
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Two recent happy birthdays saw Rich Ahlquist and Debbie Martin turning 60.
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Down in Tucson recently for that monster 58th annual Gem and Mineral Show were Summit Gold-ers Lyn and Dave Philips, who reported running into stone sculptor Perry Brent Davis, all the way from Manchuria; Marstal Smithy's Judy and Randy Hoch of Salida; and Frisco Fun and Formal's Sandee Smith.
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Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed “Spike,” a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a local since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers here for 20 years.
Email your social info to milesfporteriv@aol.com
Selling them back to corporate headquarters after 10 years.
Welcome to the life of 56-year-old Bob Steinberger, who sold his dozen Ruby Tuesday dining establishments — including Dillon's — about a year ago.
Now a food and beverage consultant, and always looking for another adventure in capitalism, Bob lives in Parker, but has been back up to Summit County several times recently to visit his older brother Jim in Frisco, who's been taking a winter break from the third generation family construction business in Logansport, Ind.
Bob got his start in building after graduating from the University of Indiana in Bloomington, and then joined Ruby Tuesday as an assistant manager in Memphis, Tenn. He continued with the growing chain, working in Michigan and South Florida, before buying the franchise rights in Colorado a little over a decade ago.
He owned the Ruby Tuesday in the Dillon Ridge Shopping Center, along with others, stretching from Fort Collins to Pueblo, and another in a Cripple Creek casino.
“I spent a lot of time in Dillon, which was my favorite location and also one of the most challenging,” says Bob.
The current managers under Ruby Tuesday Inc., are Candace Sullivan, Joy Borry, Maria Dickert and Mark Brehm.
“All are wonderful people and they have lived for considerable time in Summit County,” Bob says.
The first Ruby Tuesday was founded in 1972 by five University of Tennessee students, and is now headquartered in Maryville, Bob explains of the chain's growth over his 35 years there.
With a tagline of “Simple, fresh, American dining,” adds Bob, “we made a sincere effort to keep things healthy and fresh. We avoided MSG, trans fats and offered healthy dining alternatives.”
“I sold them all last March,” says Bob. “Ruby Tuesday Inc., the parent company, bought all the franchise restaurants across the country at the same time — about 130 ‘units' — and nine other franchises.”
Would Bob like to return to the fast action restaurant biz?
“Absolutely, especially one that would enable me to live in Summit County. My new company is Promacon — Hospitality Consultants.”
In his personal life, Bob and Elise Herold, who's “the best girlfriend ever,” met while skiing at Lake Tahoe. Bob's son Chase, 9, is a “Double Black fearless snowboarder.”
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Meanwhile, here are some other social gleanings:
While watching the PGA TV Michelson-Woods action over the weekend from Pebble Beach, we enjoyed some on-camera interaction between Summit High-CU grad Erik Leidal, a pro sports cameraman, and big-time star — and pretty good golfer — Bill Murray of Caddyshack fame.
“Bill Murray (attired in a goofy camouflage suit) took that camera from me and shot me,” Erik writes. “He wanted to show that the wind was blowing because my hair was blowing. He said that he was ‘in the union' and to give him the camera. He turned it on me and I smiled and showed my hair.”
****
Spotted out and about recently were CME-er Pam Moser; Frisco Bay Marina Manager Phil Hofer and wife Michele; Summit County Chamber of Commerce President Mark Nunn of Edward Jones; visiting (again) Ohio financial adviser Jerry Rebel and wife Sharon; Kurt Morscher, back in town with black lab Sidney, buying a Mark Fox book which includes a photo of them; SIBA Exec Director Corry Mihm; a kinda retired Dobie Dobrovolony; telemarker Kasey Geoghegan, the Summit Foundation's director of development; and a regular hiker Laura Wilner and her dog Raj.
****
Two recent happy birthdays saw Rich Ahlquist and Debbie Martin turning 60.
****
Down in Tucson recently for that monster 58th annual Gem and Mineral Show were Summit Gold-ers Lyn and Dave Philips, who reported running into stone sculptor Perry Brent Davis, all the way from Manchuria; Marstal Smithy's Judy and Randy Hoch of Salida; and Frisco Fun and Formal's Sandee Smith.
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Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed “Spike,” a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a local since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers here for 20 years.
Email your social info to milesfporteriv@aol.com
