The Cake Boss Buddy Valastro has opened a new restaurant in San Antonio, because why not? In all honesty it’s because the city of San Antonio has apparently always been good to Buddy and his family and he’s always on the lookout for a new and lucrative opportunity. This time around he’ll be opening a restaurant/bakery that will cater to people’s appetites and their sweet tooth. He’ll be making some classic, authentic Italian dishes as well as other meals that will cater to the area. Plus he’ll be bringing the well known treats that his bakeries are so famous for to the restaurant as well.
Years ago if a person had said that the Cake Boss was going to be this big a lot of people might have laughed. But as far as reality TV shows go his was one of the best. It was just as scripted as anything else at times but it was almost always entertaining and had the kind of dynamic that made people believe that at least a good portion of it could be true to life. Buddy’s crew, his family in other words, were sometimes larger than life and it was hard to believe that he put up with so much and yet didn’t get rid of people right away. But when you work with family and it’s a family-owned and operated business then you do what you have to in order to keep things on an even keel. It was a business that Buddy worked at with his father, his mother, and his siblings since the time he was a teenager, and for the Valastro clan and extended family it’s been something that they take great pride in.
His father passed away in 1994 and his mother passed away in 2017, leaving the legacy of the bakery to Buddy and his siblings. For a while it was said that Buddy couldn’t even go back to the bakery that started it all, as the pain of losing his mother was simply too much. In many ways you can’t blame the guy since his father started him from the ground up and gave him every tool he needed to become the successful man he is today. That’s a legacy that a person can be truly proud of and everything he does today can be credited to him, but the know-how and the determination that he learned early on would have to be credited to his parents. Somehow it seems like Buddy would agree with that wholeheartedly as he loved and honored his parents immensely. Now he has a legacy of his own that he can leave to his own children if he sees fit to do such a thing, but unlike the business that his father left for him, Buddy’s children will have the chance to learn within the boundaries of a growing empire instead of a single bakery.
That seems to be what we want for our kids more often than not though, to have more than we had growing up, and a chance to earn every bit of it.
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