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JJ's was founded and is owned by Me, Justin (J.J.) Salazar and I would like to tell people about where I'm from. I grew up in the UNM area. My house was 2 blocks from Central. I would see my cousin on the weekends. He would come over to my house and we would get about $3 each from our parents to walk down Central to the campus area. It was the early eighties. There were video games every where, drugstores like Campus Pharmacy , laundromats like the Coin Op and of course game rooms. Even the Frontier had about 5 games at the height of the stand up game era. Occasionally we would get ourselves a slice of old fashioned New York style pizza from Nunzios. We would spend hours walking, playing games, stretching our $3 for as many hours as we could. As a teenager I loved to cook I tried to learn not just the method and technique of cooking but also the science of it too. I loved to learn about breads. I found it difficult to find good knowledge about the chemistry of bread. But slowly I pieced together a complete understanding of the processes that create different breads I met Jennifer In my high school art class (come see drawings I made in that class hanging in the store). My first job was at Howdy Ceramics on Menaul. At $3.85 per hour I would fill molds with liquid clay and clean the pieces when they dried. I was very unhappy, smoked constantly, listened to popular country (no classics), and then summer came and they wanted me to work under the heater that they would keep running to dry the clay pieces (literally sweating in a shop). One day I left work and aimlessly drove North on San Mateo. I passed by the Pizza Hut at Candelaria and saw a "Now Hiring" banner. I went in and got hired to be a driver. That was a fateful day. A few years later I was a young shift manager. An area manager asked if I would train to be a General Manager. I accepted and moved to The Hut at Zuni and Washington (busiest and smallest delivery unit in New Mexico). During my time at Pizza Hut I began to appreciate all the differences in pizzas made by independents. I went to California and saw about 12 different little independent pizza places and I was amazed. After that I would travel just to taste pizzas, most of them fantastic, some horrible. After a year of training, there was not a store without a general manager so they wanted me to stay as assistant. I decided that assistant manager wasn't worth 50-80 hour weeks. I went back to driving. A few years later we had our first child. Jennifer had left her job waiting tables at a restaurant by the mall to have our son. Soon It became evident that I should do more for the future of my child than I was doing. We had little money to start a business with. So I went to talk to a business Realtor to see what we could buy with credit. We were told we would need 20 thousand dollars to even consider even talking about anything specific. We had about $4000. We borrowed about $10000 from credit cards. We borrowed the rest from our family. After getting our $20 thousand we looked at a bunch of very small businesses. One was in the ground floor of a 6 story building on the southern end of downtown. There were two soda coolers, a few potato chip racks and a cash register. We did not feel like that was any real opportunity to make a future for our family. Finally, we found Easy Street Pizza the owners financed us and we paid them back in 5 years. It was more than we had wanted to get into, about $70,000 more. But it seemed to be the best option despite the fact that we had to borrow about 10 times our net worth for something that people often fail at. About to be continued when I have a day off and my kids don't need something. |
What is locally owned?
Local should mean -
That a business is owned by someone that lives in town (not just a mailing address).
Not a franchise, there is no parent company taking money to another town.
That the owner works in the business. Nobody cares like an owner but it does no
good if he is not in the store.
That a business is owned by someone that lives in town (not just a mailing address).
Not a franchise, there is no parent company taking money to another town.
That the owner works in the business. Nobody cares like an owner but it does no
good if he is not in the store.
