http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:16:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/going-green-march-seventeen/ http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/going-green-march-seventeen/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:02:05 +0000 Glenn Keefer http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/going-green-march-seventeen/ http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/going-green-march-seventeen/feed/ 0 http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/chef-john-hogan/ http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/chef-john-hogan/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:43:47 +0000 John Hogan http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/?p=38 I have always loved food. One of my first memories of food is eating clams from a bag. I wasn’t quite four years old yet, it was 1960 and we were on a family vacation in York Beach, Maine. I even drew little pictures of the local restaurants and one of them said, “Open. Clams Today.” My mom kept the drawings for years, and then framed them. They’re still hanging in my home now. read more...]]> http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/chef-john-hogan/feed/ 2 http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/recipes-are-not-like-numbers/ http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/recipes-are-not-like-numbers/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:39:00 +0000 Rich Keefer http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/?p=21 I couldn’t think of two better business partners than my brother, Glenn, and John Hogan. It’s important to know your business partners really well and to trust them implicitly, and that’s especially true in tough times. We actually started feeling the economic crisis six months before the government called it a recession. read more...]]> http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/recipes-are-not-like-numbers/feed/ 0 http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/long-island-kids/ http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/long-island-kids/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:18:53 +0000 Glenn Keefer http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/?p=11 Some people ask me, “How’d a boy from Long Island wind up owning a restaurant in Chicago?” I got my first taste of the restaurant business at Philbin’s Goalpost in Amityville in 1969 working for Gerry Philbin, the great defensive end, from the NY Jets Super Bowl Champions. In 1980, I moved to Chicago and got a job as a bartender at The Palm... read more...]]> http://www.keefersrestaurant.com/blog/long-island-kids/feed/ 2