Steve Palmer

It's time that we start talking about this and start offering to help. And if nothing else, providing a conversation that you can stay sober in the restaurant business. You're not doomed to a life of excess just because you want to be in hospitality.

Ben committing suicide was a moment for me to pause and really question some social norms that I had accepted about our business -- like this is just the way it is. Everybody does drugs ; everybody parties.