1. Hoggy’s Barn & Grille. The concept was developed by a small group of people working at the Steak Escape.
The founders of that company financed the development and operated the locations. I designed and hand
built 5 locations. We went to huge amount of trouble to build the interiors. I worked with a talented group of
friends and we actually set up a shop in the middle of the room and made darn near everything on site.

2. We tore down some barns to come up
with al lot of the wood. That wasn’t
fun by the way

3. Me in the first tractor!
In a few of the Hoggy’s locations we
hung a full size tractor in the middle
of the room. Hardest part was
getting grease to stop leaking from
the axle

4. My friend Greg McDowell and I ran these jobs and did the lions share of the interior work
along with Tim Hammer and Bart Browne. Basically the four of us killed ourselves doing these
restaurants.

5. All of the interior finishes were hand done
and very unique. Every piece of art also
hand made.

6. Artwork in all the Hoggy’s was hand done by a
great artist: Cyndi Bellarose from Columbus
Ohio. She is always filled with great ideas.