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Serving Hospitality
Fork N’ Pint
Special to the
Jewish News
succeed when others had failed in the same loca-
tion, Young confidently replied, “Businesses fail
everywhere. All businesses can fail regardless of
the location. Hard work is the secret. Know your
trade; know your skill; build tools; and educate
your staff so that they can achieve the objectives.
“We have a different philosophy,” he adds. “Let’s
systemize things; let’s build a program; make the
information available and hire good people who
can take that information and produce a consis-
tent product and service.”
As with their other restaurant business, the Irish
Tavern located just around the corner, some told
him that it would never work. They were wrong.
Not only is the Tavern thriving, it recently won a
local award for beautification of the city.
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busy spring/summer season. The twinkle lights
and the fire pits outside beckon patrons to enjoy
the fresh breeze off the lake.
“People love to sit on that patio,” Doug Young
says.
The decor is warm, inviting and comfortable.
“My sister-in-law, Laura Young, is the designer,”
Young shares. She did a good job of making the
big space inside feel more intimate and soft, like a
large living room.
“We are in the hospitality business. We happen
to serve food and drinks, but we are not a restau-
rant first; we are hospitality first,” says Young, who
credits that statement as the key to their success.
Fork n’ Pint is not your ordinary restaurant, and
when asked why he thought his restaurant would
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estled in the curve in the road, in the idyl-
lic Waterford setting that used to be home
to Key Largo and before that O’Toole’s, is
now Fork n’ Pint. Brothers Doug and Burge Young
opened its doors back in December 2015 and busi-
ness has been hopping ever since. Indeed, when
you turn and drive down the hill, you can see this
is a place where you could have a lot of fun.
This is a big restaurant with seating indoors for
200, plus a banquet room that seats an additional
80 people. The barn doors that close it off can be
opened as needed.
With a 135-seat patio that overlooks Coles Bay
of Cass Lake and the warmer weather just starting
to make its 2017 debut, Fork n’ Pint owners, man-
agers and staff are looking forward to a second
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