[fire sizzling]
Peter: We want our guests at Han Oak
to feel comfortable and taken care of.
They come in and they're like,
“Wow, I feel like we're in somebody's home.”
And I always have to say,
Well yeah, you are. I mean, we live here.”
We have a little one-bedroom micro home
inside of our restaurant.
But when I was in New York, cooking in a restaurant
was very demanding.
And so when I moved back to Portland,
I sort of left that all behind
and really focused on our family first.
I know that leaving the house for 12 to 14 to 16 hours a day
to run a restaurant somewhere else
would be really hard for our family,
so to be able to step away and take a little break
and then cuddle with the kids for a little while.
Yeah, that's really, really special.
Our family is very much involved in the restaurant,
so my mom is always helping me with recipes,
my dad will be setting the fire in the courtyard,
my wife will be hosting,
and my kids will be running around, being hospitable.
The Chase Ink card, it's sort of grown with us
as our business has grown.
It helps with our cash flow to buy things
two/three weeks out instead of day by day.
We do what works for our family and we cook
this type of food that our family likes to cook.
If it makes us happy, hopefully it'll make others happy too.