Thursday, February 28, 2019
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Volume 6, Number 18
Watch Factory’s Patsch plans to sell restaurant, retire By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
He’s in his 24th year of offering Austrian cuisine to customers and is looking to retire from a demanding but rewarding profession. The Watch Factory Restaurant, 122 Elm St., is for sale and has garnered some interest, Patsch said. Markus Patsch, owner of The Watch Factory Restaurant at 122 Elm St. in Cheshire, talks about his business and his plans to sell the establishment and retire. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
staff, most of whom have been with him for many years. “I think it’s a wonderful profession,” he said Tuesday. “I am very pleased that my colleagues were with me for so many years.” One of those colleagues, waitress Diane Billings, has been at the restaurant for 16 years. She called the staff “a family.” “I ate here so often they offered me a job,” Billings said.
Patsch, who travels several times a year to ski and visit relatives in Austria, plans to spend more time with his grandchildren once retired, as well as take “a long rest.” For the past decades his work day has started at 9 a.m. and run until 11:30 p.m. or even 1 a.m. on weekends. See Owner, A13
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After making countless Sacher cakes, schnitzel dishes and marinated beets, the chef said he still enjoys cooking each of the dishes he offers. Patsch also enjoys his customers and restaurant
Old pro gives new look to program By Sean Krofssik Record-Journal staff
Markus Patsch, owner and chef at The Watch Factory Restaurant, cracked eggs for a traditional Austrian chocolate cake last week in between taking calls from possible buyers.
He came to the United States from his hometown in the Kitzbühel Alps more than 40 years ago as entertainer Victor Borge’s personal chef and lived at his Greenwich estate. In 1975, Patsch opened his own restaurant in Massachusetts and since then has been in the restaurant business.
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