The Best Of Everything

Remembering A Friend

With every new Kruse and Muer restaurant,
Bill Kruse pays tribute to the late Chuck Muer.

DANNY RASKIN
Local Columnist

• Mongolian Beef
• Rung Po thicken
•Almond Boneless Chicke

• Sesame thicken or Bee
• Sweet & Sour Ribs
or Chicken

• Pan Seared Sea Bas

• Pan Seared Yellow Fin
Tuna
• Pan-Seared Salmon
with Shitake Sauce
• Emperor Beef
• Baby Back Ribs

• Spicy Garlic
Shrimp, Scallop
or Squid
• Spicy Garlic Seafood
• Spicy Garlic Chicken
• Stuffed ialapenos
with Shrimp Paste

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instrumental in helping guide
me along the right path in the
restaurant business," says Bill.
here are few better
"I think of him often, and will
ways to remember
always use the so many good
a good friendship
things I learned from Chuck
when one has
in my 17 years of employment
passed on ... than to do all
for him."
that is necessary in perpetuat-
They became partners in
D ANNY
ing the late friend's name.
1988
... when Ray left the
RA SKIN
This has been a passionate
company to open his first
ambition of Bill Kruse since his Local Columnist restaurant, Kruse & Muer
friend of many years, Chuck
Quality Foods in Rochester.
Muer, was lost at sea off the Florida coast
Much of the Chuck Muer
in 1993.
Restaurant operations to this day con-
Bill and Chuck had been friends
tinue to show ... Like Chuck, all six
from that day in 1972 when Chuck,
(with more coming) restaurants owned
as president of the C.A. Muer Corp. ,
by Bill Kruse are seafood operations.
interviewed him for an assistant man-
Since there is no more Chuck Muer
ager post within the organization.
... and all his C.A. Muer restaurants
After eventually taking over as a
are now owned by the Landy Co. out
general manager — and reporting
of Houston ... there is no way that
directly to Chuck — their close-knit
Bill will not continue Chuck's fetish
friendship began outside of the work
for dining goodness.
area as well.
After Quality Foods came Kruse &
Bill and wife Cindi, Chuck and wife
Muer on Main in Rochester in 1990
Betty loved snow skiing together ... and
... with its wood-carved figures in
went with their families often to
front that used to beckon folks to Bill
Colorado ... Bill recalls Chuck teaching
Boesky's, and Joe Friedman's spot at
his and Cindi's two boys, Alex and
the Brass Rail on Adams in Detroit.
Casey, how to ski by connecting a rope
Then, in 1992, the Rochester Chop
around Chuck's and their waists ... then
House was opened in downtown
gliding in togetherness down the hills.
Rochester ... with an elegant setting
Every year, Bill and Chuck went
that includes upgraded service of pre-
goose hunting in Canada ... fished
for salmon all spring and
competed annually in
Chuck's yearly
Salmon Stakes
Tournament in St.
Clair Shores.
"Chuck was very

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Chuck
Muer and
Bill Kruse