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Never heard of the guy, but sounds fishy. R.I.P.
Quote from: Central Floridave on April 16, 2015, 02:00:09 PMNever heard of the guy, but sounds fishy. R.I.P.http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150324/BLOGS09/150329918/investor-motos-homaro-cantu-hid-fundsfor sure.
Quote from: FlyingFoxFruits on April 16, 2015, 03:45:27 PMQuote from: Central Floridave on April 16, 2015, 02:00:09 PMNever heard of the guy, but sounds fishy. R.I.P.http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150324/BLOGS09/150329918/investor-motos-homaro-cantu-hid-fundsfor sure.I actually am aware of him and his mentor Charlie Trotter. Like Adam said he prolly offed himself due to big time money problems. I would never do that especially with two children. But he was an artiste with all this entails.My observation is that many immigrant entrepreneurs get here and go into food and agriculture businesses of some kind. They even eff up and go bankrupt more than once and get through it. Mr Cantu should have taken a longer perspective and done the same. He had a good reputation and could have recycled himself with new investors backing him thanks to this Federal Reserve funny money bubble economy.His mentor Charlie Trotter was very interesting. He was a solid and successful top restauranteur who ran his own place for 24 years in Chicago. He retired at age 53 to get a degree in philosophy or similar. He died 18 months later from a heart attack
The famed chef behind Moto and iNG was found dead of hanging in Chicago on Tuesday, in what authorities believe was a suicide.
@Adam...news accounts say he was found hanged as in done by himselfQuoteThe famed chef behind Moto and iNG was found dead of hanging in Chicago on Tuesday, in what authorities believe was a suicide.There is lots of coke, marijuana, alcohol use in the high tension restaurant business. Go read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (who I like his travelogs on TV)You can zip through that book in no time flat