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Ken & I have been working together and have been married now for 4 years (2020). Being a husband & wife can be hard enough, but we are also business partners and work together every day.
More often then not we are asked… “How in the world do you do that?”
Well, we don’t really know. God has blessed us with a perfect mix of talents and patience for one another.
Ken has a passion for his food and for bringing people together. The idea of breaking bread with someone is very powerful. There is something that happens when you share a good meal with someone. The better the food sometimes the better the company can be. Have you ever gone to a family get together dreading the encounter and then the cool uncle shows up with the best food ever and all of a sudden that day improves 100xs over? Chef Ken strives to be that person in everyone’s life. The food and sauces are only the beginning (a very tasty beginning) of the Hatfield’s experience.
So many people go out to eat because they are hungry or bored and need something to do. We ourselves do this from time to time. It’s the same most places we go. They take your drink order, appetizer round, main dish, dessert maybe, here’s the check…. have a nice day. Its pretty standard transactional. The goal of not being hungry or board any more is cured, for a moment.
Hatfield’s was built more for those looking for an experience. We strive to give you more than you bargained for. One of Chefs favorite things to do after cooking for a dinning room full of people, is personally checking on everyone! Every chance he gets to come out and talk to people he takes that time to personally see if you enjoyed what he made for you. He loves to see the crinkle between your eyes when you try the brown sugar bacon mac n cheese for the first time. He pays attention to every detail and makes his food not only delicious but beautiful. These interactions make us kin to those who come and dine with us.
His flavors come from his family recipes and will draw you into our family. But, this is only part of the thing that makes the food and the sauces so unique. Most things at Hatfield’s comes with a story. As his wife, I can attest to the fact that a lot of his stories are hard to believe. I used to think he was just telling them to me to impress me. Which they did. I have admitted to thinking he was quit the story teller and thought he used a lot of artistic license and embellishments to make average stories sound extraordinary. Well, time has taught me that there is no embellishment needed. The stories are true, (people over time have corroborated them)and incredible. We continue to make more great stories together as we work, live and breath every minute of every day together.
Its isn’t all unicorns and rainbows of course, there are trials, sadness, stress, anxiety and anger that can flair up from time to time. But, those moments make us strong inspire new ideas, spark new flavors and the stories become richer and deeper still.
The passion for cooking and serving people and making them feel at home seems to always win and Chefs love for people continues to drive him and the business forward.
We want to be more than a restaurant, more than a food truck, more than someone that caters your event and leaves. We are working to grow our family by adding yours. Best way to do that is to share all the stories we can with you.
Once in a while we get super spontaneous and take a trip, we like to serve in missions abroad and we are also both recovering addicts & alcoholics and share those parts of our selves with those who know us. We want to inspire change and peace and love for those around us and to build a better world. Even if we do it one bottle of BBQ sauce and one brisket sandwich at a time.
Great food is just food without a loving bunch of people to sit down and share it with, to break bread and share a piece of yourself along with your brisket.
Thanks for joining us as we share our journeys with you. Through recovery, through business and marriage and our experiences with “customers” (I hate that word) we call them family.
We will be offering our sauces for sale on Amazon in the near future. I could write whole post on what to do and not to do when selling on Amazon!
Anyways, we will be donating part of sauce sales to different organizations each month and supporting those who help feed those in need, along with our own efforts to help those around us. If you know organizations that serve the community in this way please feel free to give them a shout out in a comment on this post.
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