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States in previous years. The 
family felt it was finally time 
to go, as the collapse of the 
Soviet Union left the repub-
lics, including Latvia, in vari-
ous states of chaos.
“It was like hypothetically, 
if the United States collapsed 
into 50 different countries,
” 
Fleysher explains of the end of 
the Soviet era. “Everyone was 
grabbing whatever they could, 
because in the Soviet Union, 
everything belonged to the 
government.
”
In the chaos, Fleysher was 
once physically attacked for 
no reason. But the family 
couldn’t leave right away. 
Applications to emigrate took 
months, sometimes years, and 
the Fleyshers waited more 
than five years until their 
request was granted.
Like many others, they were 
forced to leave everything 
behind in the former Soviet 

Union in order to exit the 
country. “When I came to the 
United States, all I had was 
a plastic bag full of pictures 
and a T-shirt signed by my 
friends,
” Fleysher remembers.
Yet the entrepreneur had a 
dream, even from the young 
age of 17. “My plan was to be 
successful by age 30,
” he con-
tinues. “By age 25, I opened 
my first restaurant.
”
Fleysher always knew this 
would be the case, though. It 
was clear to him since the first 
soup he made for his father 
at the age of 5. “It just comes 
natural,
” he says of cooking. 
“You have to be confident.
“Other chefs, maybe they 
will be afraid something won’t 
work,
” he continues, “but you 
have to see the final product 
in your head already. And 
you just think and you change 
ingredients until you make it 
happen.
” 

Chef plates the 
vegetables. 

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