My name is Ulisses Souza, Im an Entrepreneur, Chef/Restaurant Owner, Real Estate Agent/Investor.
I have been in the restaurant business since I was 15 and still in high school. I worked in a Latin restaurant where my passion for the food business began.
I started working as a dishwasher, and since the line cooks would spend more time outside of the kitchen smoking than making the orders, they decided to teach me how to cook.
At the same time my passion for the whole restaurant business began, I started as a bus boy and later as a server when I didn’t have to work in the kitchen. When I was 17 I knew how to do pretty much anything you could imagine in the restaurant business, including washing dishes to serving tables, to doing the food cost for plates.
As my passion grew, I knew that I wanted to continue working in the food business in the future. I worked at the same restaurant for 8 years and the owner, who taught me a lot, decided to open a new place and make it a franchise. I was promised a 20% partnership once we had the first Restaurant opened, but sadly things didn’t go well and due to the huge crises of 2008, the restaurant closed down.
The new restaurant closed down and I went back to work at the same restaurant I used to work at. In 2011, this place closed down as well.
I now had to look for a new job. Fortunately, some of the servers that used to work with me told me they were working at a new place. I decided to come by and apply for a job as a server, but the owner told me he wasn’t looking for servers but that he needed a cook, and since he knew I was a Chef he said I could join his crew as a cook, and I could start the upcoming week!
A week later I was there for my first day on the job. Everything went smoothly and 8 years later I am still there, now as a partner. They gave me the opportunity to grown with them and do what I love the most, which is to live out my passion in this Wonderfull business called Restaurant!