While his mostly jerk-based, creative menu certainly delivers its promise of amazing taste, Bach himself used to deliver — packages, that is. In 2014 he worked for the post office, which he enjoyed for two years until he began to feel worn out. “I was like, ‘I can’t do this for 30-plus years,'” Ba said. “I wouldn’t survive that. Ultimately, I needed to find something else.” He was struggling with trying to find that perfect “something” to pursue when he happened to post a photo of his dinner on social media one day. People began commenting on it, asking if he would make extras. “They said, ‘We’ll pay you!’ But at first I thought there was no way people would pay for my food,” Ba said. “Eventually, too many people were asking so I made a Facebook post telling people to submit their orders and pick it up from my apartment on Sunday.” → 30
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