Superior Woman--Summer 2020--Final Edition
Superior Woman Summer 2020 is a publication about women living, working and playing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Superior Woman Summer 2020 is a publication about women living, working and playing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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commercial art degree from Macomb Community College. She<br />
worked for the Chuck Muer restaurants in downstate Michigan, which<br />
was a small chain of fine dining establishments that eventually were<br />
shuttered or sold following Muer’s death. As regional pastry chef for<br />
about 10 years for those facilities, she received some of those recipes as<br />
part of her severance pay when the last restaurant she was working at<br />
closed. But they aren’t the only proprietary recipes in use at her shop.<br />
“Family recipes, like our most popular cake, is Mom’s Chocolate<br />
Cake, which is my grandmother’s recipe; our banana cake is a family<br />
recipe, and our baker is super-talented and likes to create new recipes<br />
and try new things,” Kurtz said.<br />
Enjoying the Ride<br />
With her Food Network-brush-with-cake-fame behind her, Kurtz<br />
is satisfied to be back where she is, in Negaunee, working nearly every<br />
day (her shop is closed on Sundays) and greeting her customers.<br />
“I’m grateful that (business) is steady all year round,” she said. “In the<br />
wintertime, I get all the locals, and in the summer, they are all out to<br />
camp, so then I get all the tourists. We get a lot of people that we are<br />
on their route. They come up for their summer vacation, and we are<br />
one of the stops they have to make.”<br />
No matter what the season, however, it’s that downhome feeling once<br />
inside the Midtown Café that just works.<br />
“One of the best sounds of owning your own business is hearing<br />
people laughing, enjoying their time here, and having fun,” she said. “I<br />
know my customers, and my customers know me, so I’m content, I’m<br />
very lucky.”<br />
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“<br />
One of the best sounds of owning your own<br />
business is hearing people laughing, enjoying<br />
their time here, and having fun.<br />
I know my customers, and my customers know<br />
”<br />
me, so I’m content. I’m very lucky.<br />
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