Order Up to Ever After: How Five Austin Restaurant Couples Fell in Love | Eater Austin

"Originating from small-scale beginnings—teaching cooking classes out of her kitchen (with their son in a playpen) and selling Thai curry at a farmer’s market on weekends—this business spun off into a full-fledged restaurant that the couple has owned and operated for 17 years. Over time they’ve shifted more responsibility to staff (he now works a 40-hour week instead of 60+), and she is expanding her cooking classes into a standalone cooking school. They acknowledge inevitable disagreements but stress the importance of a solid foundation: “Once you get into the business, there’s so many things that could go wrong, and that could ruin a relationship,” Jam says. “If you don’t start with a good foundation, that’s where things [go wrong].”" - Lane Gillespie