The Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn Restaurant is celebrating 130 years of being in business! Amy Zehnder Grossi is a fourth-generation restaurateur and joins our podcast as a winner of the 2018 Michigan GROWN, Michigan GREAT restaurant award. Hear about:
- 1,200 seats in a restaurant focusing on family-style chicken dinners and German entrees, plus bakery specialties
- Where the restaurant gets its fresh potatoes
- How they work with farmers to supply the volume of food served in their local restaurant
- Their annual Michigan Dinner event and some of the products (and people who raise them) that’ve been highlighted
- The family members who ensure food quality
- What brought her back to her family’s business
- The challenge of living in a seasonal state
- The most-prepared foods in her household
- The coolest and most interesting parts about touring farms that she works with
- Balancing life at home and at a family business
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