PERSON: Jeremy Price

Whale Wins

Co-Owner

Less than five years ago, Jeremy spent his days working at a biotech company, surrounded mostly by co-workers nearly twice his age. As respite from the stodgy office, he moonlighted a few nights a week as a busser and bartender at Seattle’s Boat Street Kitchen. But when Chef Renee Erickson learned of his carpentry and woodworking skills, she put him to work building new banquettes. The two hit it off, and Jeremy humbly (but somewhat jokingly) mentioned that he’d love to work with her on any future projects. A few months later, she unexpectedly called his bluff.

— trnk-nyc.com