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Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

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Wolfgang Puck
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: July 8
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